Nothing but Money, Is sweeter than Honey.
Contentment may be the most powerful Financial Principle. You can give more, avoid debt, and live better.
I can understand wanting to have a million dollars but once you get beyond that, I have to tell you, it's the same hamburger.
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
A man's wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
Many people who say they have financial problems really mean that they want more than they need.
To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.
Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes.
I pray we are still a young and courageous nation, that we have not grown so old and so fat and so prosperous that all we can think about is to sit back with our arms around our money bags. If we choose to do that I have no doubt that the smoldering fires will burst into flame and consume us - dollars and all.
I cannot tell you ... how to be rich. But I can tell you how to feel rich, which is far better, let me tell you firsthand, than being rich. Be grateful... It is the only totally reliable get rich quick scheme.
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.
I was talking to Donna Karan at an event and she said, "You know, Ralph, I still don't feel rich."
Riches bring anxiety; wisdom gives peace of mind.
Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.
The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.
Overall, I'm quite good with how I spend my cashola.
May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.
The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.
The money is great, no way am I complaining.
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.
Sometimes you can make a substantial amount of money and automatically think that you've made it, that you did everything you wanted to do. Some people just stop.
In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.
You know what happiness is: 'Having a little more money than your colleagues.' And that's not so tough in academic life.
