People who say that money isn't the most important thing in the world are usually broke.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that those who dismiss the significance of money often lack financial stability.
Malcolm Forbes highlights a paradox in society, where individuals who claim that money is not crucial may be reflecting their own financial struggles. This quote invites reflection on the role of money in happiness and success, proposing that financial wellbeing is essential to many aspects of life, highlighting the tension between material wealth and personal values.
In practice
In a financial seminar discussing the role of money in achieving dreams, this quote can emphasize the necessity of financial planning.
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.
Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin.
It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone.
If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and void, simply because it is a contract to violate natural justice, or men's natural rights.
To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
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