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You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you read more
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the read more
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to
be living apart.
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to
be living apart.
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Money can't buy real friendship—friendship must be earned. Money can't buy a clear conscience—square dealing is the price tag. Money read more
Money can't buy real friendship—friendship must be earned. Money can't buy a clear conscience—square dealing is the price tag. Money can't buy the glow of good health—right living is the secret. Money can't buy happiness—happiness is a mental condition and one may be as happy in a cottage as in a mansion. Money can't buy sunsets, songs of wild birds and the music of the wind in the trees—these are as free as the air we breath. Money can't buy inward peace—peace is the result of a constructive philosophy in life. Money can't buy a good character—good character is achieved through decent habits of private living and wholesome dealings in our open contacts with our fellow men.
Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that read more
Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.
Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.
Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.
How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests
Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins
(Not of old victors, read more
How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests
Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins
(Not of old victors, all whose heads and crests
Weigh not the thin ore where their visage shines,
But) of find unclipt gold, where dully rests
Some likeness, which the glittering cirque confines,
Of modern, reigning, sterling, stupid stamp;--
Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
