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What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
Sep 29, 2025
People who dream small dreams continue to live as small people.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
Failure is part of the process of success.
In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.
It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity. I don't want to oversimplify things - but the suffering of a mother who has lost her child is not dependent on her nationality, ethnicity or religion. White, black, rich, poor, Christian, Muslim or Jew - pain is pain - joy is joy.
Paul's vision, though, is starting small, with actual communities in which reconciliation and justice has to be practiced - like the rich/poor distinction in the Corinthian church, for instance, or the projected reconciliation between Philemon and Onesimus. But he clearly believes (Ephesians 3) that communities like this send a signal to the wider world that Jesus is Lord - which is aimed at then the whole world coming into line.
I choose to suppress the initial categories I want to put people in - rich, poor, together, not together, druggie, yuppie, rocker, loser, winner, cool, uncool. I choose to remember that I don't know their struggle or their pain. I choose to err on the side of grace because someday I'll stand before God, and I pray He'll err on the side of grace with me.
If you want to be rich, you need to develop your vision. You must be standing on the edge of time gazing into the future.
The biggest challenge you have is to challenge your own self doubt and your laziness. It is your self doubt and your laziness that defines and limit who you are.
Business and investing are team sports.
Talk is cheap. Learn to listen with your eyes. Actions do speak louder than words. Watch what a person does more than what he says.
A plan is a bridge to your dreams. Your job is to make the plan or bridge real, so that your dreams will become real. If all you do is stand on the side of the bank and dream of the other side, your dreams will forever be just dreams.
Business is like a wheel barrow. Nothing happens until you start pushing.
The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left.
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.
Too many people are too lazy to think. Instead of learning something new, they think the same thought day in day out.
If you want to be rich, simply serve more people.
A mistake is a signal that it is time to learn something new, something you didn't know before.
Sometimes, what is right for you at the beginning of your life is not the right thing for you at the end of your life.
To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game.
It is easy to stay the same but it is not easy to change. Most people choose to stay the same all their lives.
The only difference between a RICH person and a POOR person is how they use their time.
The ability to sell is the number one skill in business. If you cannot sell, don't bother thinking about becoming a business owner.
There are no mistakes in life, just learning opportunities.
When you are forced to think, you expand your mental capacity. When you expand your mental capacity, your wealth increases.
Inside each of us is a David and a Goliath.
People without financial knowledge, who take advice from financial experts are like lemmings simply following their leader. They race for the cliff and leap into the ocean of financial uncertainty, hoping to swim to the other side.
When you come to the boundaries of what you know, it is time to make some mistakes.
The richest people in the world build networks; everyone else is trained to look for work.
One of the most stupid things to do is to pretend you are smart. When you pretend to be smart, you are at the height of stupidity.
Sight is what you see with your eyes, vision is what you see with your mind.
The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left.
The most life destroying word of all is the word tomorrow.
Success is a poor teacher. We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don't be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You cannot have success without failure.
In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.
We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know. We are made to tell the world that there are no outsiders. All are welcome: black, white, red, yellow, rich, poor, educated, not educated, male, female, gay, straight, all, all, all. We all belong to this family, this human family, God's family.
The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth in what seems to be an instant.
One of the most destructive forces in the world is love. For the following reason: The world is a conglomeration of objects, no, of events and the approachings of events towards objects, therefore of becoming stases static stagnant, of all that is unreal. You get in the world, you get your daily life your routine doesn’t matter if you’re rich poor legal illegal, you begin to believe what doesn’t change is real, and love comes along and shows all these unchangeable for ever fixtures to be flimsy paper bits. Love can tear anything to shreds.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
The most successful people in life are the ones who ask questions. They're always learning. They're always growing. They're always pushing.
Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.
The lack of money is the root of all evil.