“The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.” EnjoyWealthPoorRichExercisePrivilegeAmiableHelpfulness Book:Lacon: or, Many things in few words Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words
“It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.” MenGivingDoeEndsDesireEnergyLosesWealthPovertyCasesOughtExerciseGainsIdealsSlaveBoundsTerrorCorruptionChosenChiefsPortionsCowardiceElsewhereBe A SlaveFreemanBreeders Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
“Even if the wealth and power be well distributed throughout a community, its members will not be happy unless they are inwardly so, and obviously where the distribution is bad, where the few have a vast superfluity and the many are consumed by anxiety or want, or where a few controllers can exercise their will over the many, society has failed, even though its total wealth and power be increased.” IfsWantWellsWisdomPoliticsCommunityWealthEconomyExerciseMembersAnxietyLiberalismDistributionConsumedControllers Author:Hilaire Belloc
“The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.” PeopleFeelingsJoyBeliefWealthVirtueMiddleExerciseComfortRelyEcstasyEntitledStarvingRaptureShortcutsLegionPersonal Strength Book:Authentic Happiness Source: Authentic Happiness
“As a skilled psychologist, Dr. Reznick draws from her wealth of experience to offer children and parents a treasure trove of skills to relieve stress. She presents well-written, easy-to-follow tools to use in every situation. From visualization techniques to breathing exercises, Dr. Reznick taps the power of a child's imagination to ensure kids achieve peace and success.” WellsChildrenUseKidsEasyParentImaginationWealthSituationWrittenAchieveExerciseOffersSkillsDrawsToolsStressTechniqueTreasureBreathingDrsPsychologistVisualizationChildren And ParentsWell WrittenStress RelievingChildren's Imagination Author:Judith Orloff
“No man is any the worse off because another acquires wealth by trade, or by the exercise of a profession; on the contrary, he cannot have acquired his wealth except by benefiting others to the extent of what they considered to be its value.” MenValuesWealthExerciseTradeProfessionContraryAcquireBenefiting Others Author:Thomas Huxley
“It is possible to see slavery and serfdom merely as extreme early forms of autocratic management, in which employees had no voice whatsoever in the work process and were viewed not as human beings but as alienated forms of individual wealth. Slavery, in this sense, did not die; it continues in modern dress in contemporary organizations wherever managers exercise autocratic power, unequal status, or arbitrary privileges, no matter how scientific the terminology or postmodern the image” HumansMatterFormDiesIndividualProcessVoiceWealthHuman BeingsModernExerciseCapitalismOrganizationManagementDressesSlaveryPrivilegeExtremesContemporaryManagersEmployeeArbitraryPostmodernTerminology Author:Kenneth Cloke
“Focused intensity is required to win. I can't stress enough that people who took control of their finances and worked their way out of debt got mad. They got sick and tired of being sick and tired! They said, "I've had it!" and went ballistic to change their lives. There is no intellectual exercise where you can academically work your way into wealth; you have to get fired up - There is no energy in logic; this is behavior and motivation modification, and it works.” PeopleWayInspirationalSaidI CanEnoughMotivationWinningEnergyWealthExerciseBehaviorIntellectualLogicSickStressMadTiredDebtFocusedFinanceIntensityThey SaidModificationFired UpBeing SickNo Energy Author:David Ramsey
“There is this fashionable progressive notion that everything is so completely political that the idea we could have some sort of neutral legal process is practically utopian - because we all know that the more money you have, the more rights you can exercise in this society. But I don't think that you deal with income inequality by limiting the First Amendment rights of affluent people. I'd rather see people screw around with the tax code to redistribute wealth a little bit than screw around with the First Amendment.” PeopleThinkingPoliticalWealthExerciseTaxesInequalityCodeProgressiveFirst AmendmentFashionableUtopian Author:Wendy Kaminer