You can tell how poor someone feels by the number of times he references money in his conversation.

Money is a sign of poverty.

On several occasions during my visit, she referred to herself as poor, and that depressed me. Most people would say they're broke. That word suggests a temporary setback. Poor, on the other hand, conveys a permanence.

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.

When you are poor, live as a poor man.

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.

He knew what poverty means. The chilling of brain and heart, the unnerving of the hands, the slow gathering about one of fear and shame and impotent wrath, the dread feeling of helplessness, of the world’s base indifference. Poverty! Poverty!

When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think (puff) my friend, you have had a pretty poor life.

Money does talk, but it has a limited vocabulary.

Of all types of human being, only the artist takes it upon himself to say that he 'cannot' work. But it is quite true; there ARE times when one cannot work. Money again, always money! Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure - above all, it means loneliness. How can you be anything but lonely on two quid a week? And in loneliness no decent book was ever written.

They say that love flies out the window when poverty comes in the door, but people generally get the sense backwards. It doesn’t mean that when a man’s money runs out he’s shaken off by women. When he runs out of money, he naturally is in the dumps. He’s no good for anything. The strength goes out of his laugh, he becomes strangely soured. Finally, in desperation, he shakes off the woman.

if you tell someone they are bad at running, they typically don't get offended

but if you tell someone they suck at earning money, it pierces deep

you can use this to make tons of money selling info products to people.

money is the only thing we all have to do and in a culture that tells us our ability to earn it equals our worth