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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
Socrates470–399 BC
If investments are keeping you awake at night, sell down to the sleeping point.
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- Business
All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Utopia of Usurers
Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
Marlon Brando1924–2004
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington1732–1799Letter to Major-General Robert Howe (17 August 1779), published in “The Writings of George Washington”: 1778-1779, edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford (1890)
- Virtue
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862
- Life & Death
Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961
- War & Peace
Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
He is richest who is content with the least.
Socrates470–399 BC
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
Ayn Rand1905–1982Atlas Shrugged (1957), Chapter Two: The Aristocracy of Pull, p. 410; Francisco d’Anconia to Bertram Scudder
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
William Jennings Bryan1860–1925
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack
He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack