Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that.

Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever.

We are generally treated based on how much or little we have, earn, or know—or seem to have, earn, or know.

Using money in one’s attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one’s attempt to put an end to xenophobia.

For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents.

For their holidays: the rich’s kids travel the world; the poor’s kids roam around their grandparents’ yard.

Poor people do not go on holiday; they go home.

The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money.

Nothing humbles a rich man better than a poor man that isn’t willing to do ‘anything’ for money.