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There was a rich industrialist who was disturbed to find a fisherman sitting lazily beside his boat. "Why aren't you out there fishing?" he asked. "Because I've caught enough fish for today," said the fisherman. "Why don't you catch more fish than you need?" the rich man asked. "What would I do with them?" "You could earn more money," came the impatient reply. "and buy a better boat so you could go deeper and catch more fish. You could purchase nylon nets, catch even more fish, and make more money. Soon you'd have a fleet of boats and be rich like me." The fisherman asked, "Then what would I do?" "You could sit down and enjoy life," said the industrialist. "What do you think I'm doing now?" the fisherman replied as he looked placidly out to sea.

—Philip Parham
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

—Woody Allen
Here's the con game these pundits are playing: 'smaller government' doesn't mean fewer taxes for you and me... It means government of, by, and for corporations and inherited wealth rather than of, by, and for We the People.

—Thom Hartmann
(...) we must first be convinced that money matters a lot in order to believe that wasting our time constitutes an impoverishment.

—Bernard Arcand
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

—Mahatma Gandhi
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

—Benjamin Franklin
There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

—Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
Saving is a very fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.

—Winston Churchill
The comfort of the rich rests upon an abundance of the poor.

—Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet)
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.

—Chinese Proverb
I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower
I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

—Benjamin Franklin
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

—Aristotle
The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the conditions that are necessary for their existence. It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty.

—Stephen Hawking
If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

—J. P. Morgan
Robert Kaplan's seminal article The Coming Anarchy … uses the image of a luxury car driving one way on a highway and a stream of destitute refugees walking the other way to suggest that whilst one part of the world is moving comfortably and prosperously forward, much of the rest of the world is suffering horribly, and disintegrating due to poverty, disease, crime, conflict, tribalism, overpopulation and pollution.

—Prince Ghazi Bin Muhummad (18/05/2007)
If I like chocolate it won't surprise you that I have a few chocolates in my fridge, but if you find out I've got 16 warehouses full of chocolate, you'd think I was insane. All these rich guys are insane, obsessive compulsive twits obsessed with money — money is all they think about — they're all nuts.

—John Cleese (1997)
Happiness is something
even the poorest man can have,
the richest man can't buy,
never loses its value
and the government can't tax.
Now that's something to be happy about!

—Kate Buxbaum-Prado (24/03/2010)
So I became greater than all who had lived in Jerusalem before me, and my wisdom never failed me. Anything I wanted, I would take. I denied myself no pleasure. I even found great pleasure in hard work, a reward for all my labors. But as I looked at everything I had worked so hard to accomplish, it was all so meaningless—like chasing the wind. There was nothing really worthwhile anywhere.

—King Solomon
The state of craving for anything blocks all deeper experience. Nothing of value can happen to a mind which knows exactly what it wants. For nothing the mind can visualize and want is of much value.

—Nisargadatta Maharaj

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