Money in an economic term is known as a medium of exchange or economic medium of exchange. Money also affects our needs, our emotions, and our self-perception. Stephen W. Gibson said “Money has great power. It is the power to feed ourselves and our families, power to purchase or rent shelter and to buy transportation. It is the power to purchase medicine for our sick children and power to go on missions when we are young and power to go on missions when we are old. The power to purchase clothes to keep us warm when the Rexburg winds blow and chill you to the bone” I hold a variety of attitudes towards money as Brother Gibson has said I need money for my rent shelter and to help me trek to my work and back home and without money none of these will happen. My attitude towards money is not to enjoy it alone but also to feed the hungry and to cloth the naked. With the intent to do good.

Billy Graham once stated, “If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.”

Values are those things that make up our character. They represent what we think is important in life. They show up in your decisions, actions, and judgments. Money can be seen to affect the way we live “However, Money usually does not make bad men good and good men better. Money can make good men better, but on the other hand it usually makes bad men worse.” So if money is to affect our life’s it should affect our lives positively not negatively. Money doesn’t exactly shape our belief system, it does influence the way we think and act toward others.