Be ever active in the management of the economy, because the root of wealth is economic activity; inactivity brings material distress.
Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success, for learning; and proper spending, for wealth.
He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants, and his relations; yet when he regains his riches those who have forsaken him come back to him. Hence wealth is certainly the best of relations.
Seneca·65 ADWith parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.
Benjamin Franklin·1758The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words: industry and frugality — that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
Chanakya·-300 ADBe ever active in the management of the economy, because the root of wealth is economic activity; inactivity brings material distress.
