“Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.”
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)
Future Proofing You (2021)
“Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.”
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)
Michael Lewis book The Big Short
Source: The Big Short (2010), Chapter One, A Secret Origin Story, p. 14
Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) writer
Source: Survivals and New Arrivals (1929), Ch. III Survivals (iii) The "Wealth and Power" Argument
William J. Bernstein (1948) economist
Source: The Four Pillars of Investing (2002), Chapter 7, Misbehavior, p. 179.
“If the citizens are wealthy, the country is strong. The King's storehouse is his people.”
Prithvi Narayan Shah (1722–1775) far-sighted king/unifier of Nepal
Quoted in page 178 of * Pradhan
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Thapa Politics in Nepal: With Special Reference to Bhim Sen Thapa, 1806–1839
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“Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.”
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
"The Shrike and the Chipmunks", The New Yorker (18 February 1939); Fables for Our Time & Famous Poems Illustrated (1940). Because it is derived from Benjamin Franklin's famous saying this is often misquoted as: Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.
From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. ”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
“Does talent have any need of passions? Yes, of many passions — repressed.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist