Wealth and Poverty
49 aphorisms · 5 comments
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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/i9vof3d6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (290 ratings) · submitted 1997
A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward.
tiny.ag/bs6fhkpv · ★★☆☆ Fair (265 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
tiny.ag/cz2awrgd · ★★☆☆ Fair (263 ratings) · submitted 1997
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
tiny.ag/qy3grjnv · ★★☆☆ Fair (274 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
tiny.ag/is34lohk · ★★☆☆ Fair (290 ratings) · submitted 1997
A banker will lend you money only if you can prove you don't need it.
tiny.ag/cpyfxowq · ★★☆☆ Fair (542 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it.
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/dv1lo7ef · ★★☆☆ Fair (332 ratings) · submitted 1997
Money is the root of all evil, and man needs roots.
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/lhewzazm · ★★☆☆ Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'd rather be rich than stupid.
tiny.ag/fvxbdltz · ★★☆☆ Fair (439 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'm opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
tiny.ag/upponmiq · ★★☆☆ Fair (820 ratings) · submitted 1998
Some of the worst torments imaginable accompany wealth. And yet many a poor man is eager for preferment and dreams of somehow "improving" his estate. Where money and property are concerned, none but vagrants are wise.
Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/ahgswdqq · ★★☆☆ Fair (1091 ratings) · submitted 1999
Alas, fortune does not change men; it unmasks them.
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/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/frswba1z · ★★☆☆ Fair (470 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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