Rich people are bigger than their problems. Poor people are smaller than their problems.
It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.
People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
There's unfortunately a view of too many people in Atlantic Canada that it's only through government favours that there's going to be economic progress, or that's what you look to That kind of can't-do attitude is a problem in this country but it's obviously more serious in regions that have had have-not status for a long time.
When money rules, we remember the price of things and forget the value of things, and that is dangerous.
Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.
The last thing that people want to hear is the plain simple fact that the rich think differently [about money] than the poor ... They have what I call a wealthy mindset.
Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.
One of the reasons that millionaires are economically successful is that they think differently.
Maybe money is unreal for most of us, easier to give away than things we want.
The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich.
To start with, anybody who would like the world to be a better place should be able to think like an economist.
