Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
We should see better and more direct measurements of economic well being.
Those things on the Internet that tell your net worth are wrong for pretty much everyone. When I started YouTube, I was pretty broke and it said $1 million then.
A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.
People are always asking me how much I'm worth. Well, all I can say is, I've got enough money to last me the rest of my life. As long as I die in the next 20 minutes.
The wealth cure is looking at your life step by step - making a diagnosis and saying, 'Am I using money or is money using me?'
The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
Make it a policy to know your net worth to the penny.
They are but beggars that can count their worth.
Wherefore it is impossible to succeed in comparing wealth of different eras or different nations. This, in political economy, like squaring the circle in mathematics, is impracticable, for want of a common mean or measure to go by.
Are you better off today than you were four years ago?
Money is the currency of life because it is the external measurement system that all of us have as to how we judge where we are in our own lives.
I don't think I'm a millionaire, but I'm comfortable.
