Sometimes the underlying meaning of a quote can best be understood and appreciated by citing another quote. Consider this other quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Money often costs too much.”
If you spend most of your time trying to make money, then you probably will not be spending most of your time doing what you love to do, what makes you happiest, and what contributes most to your personal growth and enrichment.
By missing out on the opportunity to engage yourself in these kinds of activities, you will be essentially wasting your time by throwing away your perishable life opportunity to be doing what makes you the happiest and the best person you can be. And this, by all accounts, could be considered a very costly and wasteful mistake.
Getting Personal
You cannot live without money, so how much of a waste of time could making money be? Does this idea of wasting your time by spending your time making money have any practical value? If so, in what way could it be a practically meaningful idea for thinking about the success of your life?
“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” (President Franklin D. Roosevelt)
“There are people who have money, and there are people who are rich.” (Coco Chanel)
“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people that they don’t like.” (Will Rogers)
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