Wealth and Poverty
49 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/pipgvzvf · submitted 2011 by peter
Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
tiny.ag/wlbk96e3 · submitted 1997
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
J. Paul Getty, in Success and Failure and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/wtukmszr · submitted 1997
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
tiny.ag/ac57f8tj · submitted 1997
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
tiny.ag/rnfyuapf · submitted 1997
Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
tiny.ag/aeqa8ipy · submitted 1997
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
tiny.ag/75ely1qd · submitted 1997
Money is like an arm or leg: use it or lose it.
tiny.ag/y2yzkpwq · submitted 1997
It is odd, is it not, that a person's worth to society is measured by their wealth, when instead their wealth should be measured by their worth to society.
tiny.ag/mnbumpv1 · submitted 1997
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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