Behind all the complexities of modern political economy
lies the simple fact that human beings are, speaking generally, of two persuasions:
the first would spend tomorrow what they earn today;
the second would spend today what they hope to earn tomorrow.
From this rudimentary biological fact arise all conflicts that lead to economic crises:
to panics, depressions, violent and revolutionary transfers of wealth,
and perhaps most wars.
Freeman Tilden, ‘A World in Debt’ – 1935
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards;
they try to have more things, or more money,
in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.
The way it actually works is the reverse.
You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do,
in order to have what you want.
Margaret Young
Very little is needed to make a happy life.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
One of the weaknesses of our age
is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed.
Author Unknown
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else,
a single overriding objective,
and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need if I die by four o’clock.
Henny Youngman
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