A piece from the book:
"Money is never owned. It is only in your custody for a while. Time is always running on, and the young have more of it in their pocket than the richest man or woman alive. That is not sentimentality speaking. That is sober fact.
And yet you wish to waste your youth in the getting of money? Really? Think hard, my young cub, think hard and think long before you embark on such a quest. The time spent attempting to acquire wealth will mount up and cannot be reclaimed, whether you succeed or whether you fail.
Even should you succeed in becoming rich, unlikely as that is, what will you have achieved? Independence of a kind? The luxury to choose what you wish to do with the rest of your life? Happiness?? No, no and no. You will not achieve any of those things. Not when you have too much money."
What is this coming from a book on how to get rich by a very successful man who is supposed to be optimistic? is this a test? I find it quite ridiculous he is saying this in the near to last chapter of the book, yet at the same time I understand him as well. He goes on to explain once we do acquire, we then "insulate" ourselves from others to protect and so on. I would love to hear some input on this. I still find it ridiculous for him to say such a thing, possibly a test to weed out those not dedicated.
"Money is never owned. It is only in your custody for a while. Time is always running on, and the young have more of it in their pocket than the richest man or woman alive. That is not sentimentality speaking. That is sober fact.
And yet you wish to waste your youth in the getting of money? Really? Think hard, my young cub, think hard and think long before you embark on such a quest. The time spent attempting to acquire wealth will mount up and cannot be reclaimed, whether you succeed or whether you fail.
Even should you succeed in becoming rich, unlikely as that is, what will you have achieved? Independence of a kind? The luxury to choose what you wish to do with the rest of your life? Happiness?? No, no and no. You will not achieve any of those things. Not when you have too much money."
What is this coming from a book on how to get rich by a very successful man who is supposed to be optimistic? is this a test? I find it quite ridiculous he is saying this in the near to last chapter of the book, yet at the same time I understand him as well. He goes on to explain once we do acquire, we then "insulate" ourselves from others to protect and so on. I would love to hear some input on this. I still find it ridiculous for him to say such a thing, possibly a test to weed out those not dedicated.
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