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If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can't buy
If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can't buy
There is a penalty for trying to knock
down a cockpit door, but it's the people
who try to go read more
There is a penalty for trying to knock
down a cockpit door, but it's the people
who try to go from coach to 1st class
they really beat up.
I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.
I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.
Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you read more
Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. If the source is corrupt, you have damned your own existence. Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers your scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame. Then you'll scream that money is evil. Evil, because it would not pinch-hit for your self-respect? Evil, because it would not let you enjoy your depravity? Is this the root of your hatred of money?
After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought read more
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
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.
It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
