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Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not.
Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not.
The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer read more
The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer classes have adopted a certain way of living, producers have an incentive to improve the methods of manufacture so that soon it is possible for the poorer classes to follow suit. Thus luxury furthers progress. Innovation "is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. The luxury today is the necessity of tomorrow." Luxury is the roadmaker of progress: it develops latent needs and makes people discontented. In so far as they think consistently, moralists who condemn luxury must recommend the comparatively desireless existence of the wild life roaming in the woods as the ultimate ideal of civilized life.
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense read more
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known -- that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
If you have to forecast, forecast often.
If you have to forecast, forecast often.
A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who read more
A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My advice: Don't worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements.
He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. [Proverbs 28:20].
He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. [Proverbs 28:20].
Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most read more
Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.
When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues.
When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues.
Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and read more
Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.
