Quotable Quotes: Money MAP (mindset, attitude, philosophy™)
by Miki SaxonMoney makes the world go round. It’s one of the main causes of divorce and, right now especially, is on everyone’s mind.
I tend to agree with George Bernard Shaw that “Lack of money is the root of all evil.” That or an insatiable desire for more and more of it.
Way back in 1877, Russell H. Conwell said, “Money is power, & you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.” The problem these days is that people substitute ‘all out’ for ‘reasonably’.
I don’t know who said the following or if they are just folk wisdom, but they certainly are accurate.
“All I ask is a chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.”
“While money can’t buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.”
“While money doesn’t buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.”
I also like Lord Mancroft’s comment, “Money can’t buy friends. But you can afford a better class of enemy.”
But Francis Bacon really hit a homer with his statement, “Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.”
According to Samuel Butler, “All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income,” which is a good description of our current situation.
Then, of course, there is Emile Henry Gauvreay’s almost perfect description of the attitude that got many of us where we are today, “I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don’t want to buy things they don’t need to impress people they dislike.”
If you want to significantly improve your life you should embrace Bacon’s words, while eschewing Gaureay’s.
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