Wealth and Poverty
49 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/frswba1z · submitted 1997
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
tiny.ag/d3qjgzaa · submitted 1997
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
tiny.ag/dgpjywem · submitted 1997
A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money.
tiny.ag/oljxzymd · submitted 1997
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
tiny.ag/vm8pwhyr · submitted 1998 by nthomas
The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.
tiny.ag/huwbmgt6 · submitted 1997
The easiest way to figure the cost of living is to take your income and add ten percent.
tiny.ag/2upsgaxe · submitted 1997
The way to make a small fortune in the commodities market is to start with a large fortune.
tiny.ag/i9vof3d6 · submitted 1997
A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward.
tiny.ag/cz2awrgd · submitted 1997
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
tiny.ag/bs6fhkpv · submitted 1997
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
tiny.ag/cpyfxowq · submitted 1997
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it.
tiny.ag/qy3grjnv · submitted 1997
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
tiny.ag/is34lohk · submitted 1997
A banker will lend you money only if you can prove you don't need it.
tiny.ag/litmxv5j · submitted 1997
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
tiny.ag/blmzpnir · submitted 1997
Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it and there's no one to live in it.
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, in Life and Death and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/0spygbpd · submitted 1997
Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It buys you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
tiny.ag/t6cxlzxo · submitted 1997
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, that gives happiness.
Thomas Jefferson, in Wealth and Poverty and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/nuplbfta · submitted 1997
The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.
Jean-Paul Kauffmann, in Science and Religion and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/wlbk96e3 · submitted 1997
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
J. Paul Getty, in Success and Failure and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/rnfyuapf · submitted 1997
Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
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