George Bernard Shaw Quotes

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

I was poor once, I didn't like it, I don't want to be poor again.

Money is kind of just like air - if you don't have air, you can't breathe. If you don't have money, I don't think you'll want to breathe - you won't want to live.

No, I'm not wealthy.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.

I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'

Physical wealth has not necessarily been very secure.

Then Martine said: "So yuo will be poor now all your life, Babette?" Poor?" said Babette. She smiled as if to herself. "No, I shall never be poor. I told you that I am a great artist. A great artist, Mesdames, is never poor.We have something, Mesdames, of which other people know nothing.

He is not poor who has a competency.

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

The purpose of investing is not to simply optimise returns and make yourself rich. The purpose is not to die poor.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

Social security has enabled people to retire with dignity and overwhelmingly not be in poverty. We have to keep it solvent.

Proper prospecting prevents poverty.

There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal.

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches.

Most of us aren't that interested in getting rich- we just don't want to get poor.

I never wanted to have to take a job because I didn't have any money.

It's no secret that my family was very, very poor, and I don't want that for my life or my children's life certainly. But some might say I could relax a bit more and know that that's not going to happen to me. I'm not going to end up in a car.

There is a time to make money and a time to not lose money.

The first priority is to make sure we have capital to continue to have capital available to put into the financial system. That's the first priority.

A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset.