Work & Money

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Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth; communism is the equal distribution of poverty. 

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
~ Mark Twain

Don't spend money you haven't earned to buy things you don't need to impress people you don't like. 

Economics is war pursued by other means.
~ Raymond F. DeVoe Jr.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
~ John Gardner

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.

He who knows enough is enough will always have enough.
~ Lao-tzu

If you have two loaves of bread, give one to the poor,
sell the other and buy hyacinths to feed your soul.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Money doesn't buy class.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
~ Oscar Wilde

Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.
~ Eli Khamarov

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied...but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
~ John Berger

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~ Russian Proverb

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
~ Henry David Thoreau

There are lots of things in life that money won't buy,
but have you ever tried to buy them without money.

To feel rich, count the things you have that money can't buy.

Too many people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
~ Willem de Kooning

Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.

Wealth lies not in the extent of possessions but in the fewness of wants.

Money can buy you delicious food, but it can't buy you an appetite.
It can buy beautiful parties, but not buy even one loyal friend.
It can take you all over the world, but it cannot buy you a ticket to contentment. 

There are two ways to get enough.
One is to continue to accumulate more and more.
The other is to desire less.
~ G. K. Chesterson

What Money Won't Buy
Money Will Buy...
A bed but not sleep
Books but not brains
Food but not appetite
Finery but not beauty
A house but not a home
Medicine but not health
Luxuries but not culture
Amusements but not happiness
Religion but not salvation.