[...]they feel the fear of not having money. Instead of confronting the fear, they react instead of think.

As for [...] Of all passions, that which inclineth men least to break the laws is fear.

People who are insecure about their lives run after money. If you are interested and passionate about your job, money will follow.

lot of advice comes from fear, people wishing you to stay with the herd and do the normal thing taking a calculated risk is not recklessness; it is fearlessness

Money brings security, that was the idea. But it turned out to be just the opposite. If you have a great big house, that meant you had to be fearful again: somebody might rob you. If you had a great big store, you had to be fearful now that there’s gonna be a riot — and everything in your store would be stolen. See, money brings more fear than security.

speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.

Some people are terrified of snakes. Some people are terrified about losing money.

For most people, the fear of loss is much greater than the desire for gain. Which

The fear of losing money is real. Everyone has it. Even the rich. But it’s not fear that is the problem. It’s how you handle fear. It’s how you handle losing. It’s how you handle failure that makes the difference in one’s life. That goes for anything in life, not just money. The primary difference between a rich person and a poor person is how they handle that fear.

Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded.

Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

I don't know.

Passion looks like anger to people who aren’t passionate about anything.

Simply because it's easier to learn to work for money, especially if fear is your primary emotion when the subject of money is discussed.

For most people, the fear of loss is much greater than the desire for gain.

Most people think small, because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning.