Thoughts on abundance
I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need—just so long as I die by four o’clock.
—Henny Youngman
I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.
—Albert Camus
—Peter H Diamandis
My Lord. It is too much, and not enough.
—Jacqueline Carey
Like the rain, everything comes in bucketsful—or not at all.
—Henry miller
—Henry miller
God doesn’t measure his bounty, but oh, how we do!
—Mignon Mclaughlin
You never find people labouring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.—Samuel Johnson
In his heyday, Howard Hughes didn’t have as good a television as you do.
—Kevin D Williamson
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free.—Edmund Burke
harvest.
—William Blake
Wealth comes from industry and the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity. —Calvin Coolidge—Psalm 65:11
It was a rich place. As rich as plumcake.—CS Lewis
An abundance of money can bless as well as curse. The latter is to be vigilantly guarded against.
—BC Forbes
Image: Henny Youngman: Paul Natkin / Wireimage; Henry Miller: Larry Colwell/Anthony Barboza/Getty Images; Burke, Coolidge, Johnson: Shutterstock; Lewis: Hans Wild/The Life Picture Collection/Getty Images; Diamandis: Mike Blake / Reuters
(This story appears in the 27 April, 2018 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)
