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.
The beauty of our system is that it isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know. It's very hard to have ideas or thoughts under those circumstances. You can't fight the world alone.
I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last.
The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for programming it, then it will be programmed unwittingly by accident or by the social environnement.
Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out?
I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.
It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.
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