Better than low taxes for mending hard times is the habit of spending less than we earn. Wealth comes oftener from decreasing our wants than from increasing our income. A real sign of growing sense is learning to reduce expenses. Author:
One day while Groucho Marx was working in his garden (dressed in well-worn gardening attire), a wealthy woman pulled up in a Cadillac and endeavored to persuade the gardener to come and work for her. How much does the lady of the house pay you? she asked. Oh, I don't get paid in dollars, Groucho replied, glancing up. The lady of the house just a lets me sleep with her Author:Groucho Marx
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future Author:Johann Wolfgang
The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice Author:Mahatma Gandhi
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this? Author:Henry David Thoreau
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him Author:Francis Bacon
Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all thingsIt was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased Author:Adam Smith