Wealth and Poverty
49 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/wlbk96e3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (238 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1186 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1168 ratings) · submitted 1997
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
tiny.ag/rnfyuapf · ★★☆☆ Fair (1047 ratings) · submitted 1997
Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
tiny.ag/aeqa8ipy · ★★☆☆ Fair (845 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (2766 ratings) · submitted 1997
Money is like an arm or leg: use it or lose it.
tiny.ag/zc2rts71 · ★★☆☆ Fair (3048 ratings) · submitted 1997
One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need money the most, are the very ones that never have it.
tiny.ag/dgpjywem · ★★☆☆ Fair (867 ratings) · submitted 1997
A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money.
tiny.ag/d3qjgzaa · ★★☆☆ Fair (871 ratings) · submitted 1997
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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