Wealth and Poverty
49 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/g42cvkx0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (272 ratings) · submitted 1997
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller, in Vice and Virtue and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/blmzpnir · ★★☆☆ Fair (1122 ratings) · 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/litmxv5j · ★★☆☆ Fair (324 ratings) · 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/nuplbfta · ★★☆☆ Fair (279 ratings) · 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/t6cxlzxo · ★★☆☆ Fair (1006 ratings) · 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/0spygbpd · ★★☆☆ Fair (535 ratings) · 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/wlbk96e3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (238 ratings) · 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/75ely1qd · ★★☆☆ Fair (2766 ratings) · submitted 1997
Money is like an arm or leg: use it or lose it.
tiny.ag/aeqa8ipy · ★★☆☆ Fair (845 ratings) · submitted 1997
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
tiny.ag/rnfyuapf · ★★☆☆ Fair (1047 ratings) · submitted 1997
Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
tiny.ag/ac57f8tj · ★★☆☆ Fair (1168 ratings) · submitted 1997
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
tiny.ag/wtukmszr · ★★☆☆ Fair (1186 ratings) · submitted 1997
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
tiny.ag/o4tugiae · ★★☆☆ Fair (274 ratings) · submitted 1997
While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.
tiny.ag/huwbmgt6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (253 ratings) · submitted 1997
The easiest way to figure the cost of living is to take your income and add ten percent.
tiny.ag/vm8pwhyr · ★★☆☆ Fair (854 ratings) · submitted 1998 by nthomas
The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.
tiny.ag/2upsgaxe · ★★☆☆ Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997
The way to make a small fortune in the commodities market is to start with a large fortune.
tiny.ag/w3vp1iki · ★★☆☆ Fair (314 ratings) · submitted 1997
Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than in a Lada.
tiny.ag/dv1lo7ef · ★★☆☆ Fair (332 ratings) · submitted 1997
Money is the root of all evil, and man needs roots.
tiny.ag/pipgvzvf · ★★☆☆ Fair (59 ratings) · submitted 2011 by peter
Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
tiny.ag/lhewzazm · ★★☆☆ Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'd rather be rich than stupid.
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