‘A part of all you earn is yours to keep. It should be not less than a tenth no matter how little you earn. It can be as much more as you can afford. Pay yourself first. Do not buy from the clothes-maker and the sandal-maker more than you
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“For the first time in human history, supply began to outstrip demand. And an entirely new problem was born: who is going to buy all this stuff?”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“For better or worse, in sickness and in health, the modern economy has been growing like a hormone-soused teenager.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“When agriculture and industry came along people could increasingly rely on the skills of others for survival, and new ‘niches for imbeciles’ were opened up. You could survive and pass your unremarkable genes to the next generation by working as a water carrier or an assembly-line worker.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“This approach is sometimes called memetics. It assumes that, just as organic evolution is based on the replication of organic information units called ‘genes’, so cultural evolution is based on the replication of cultural information units called ‘memes’.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“I advise that you take the wisdom of Algamish and say to yourselves, ‘A part of all I earn is mine to keep.’ Say it in the morning when you first arise. Say it at noon. Say it at night. Say it each hour of every day. Say it to yourself until the words stand out like letters of fire across the sky.”
― The Richest Man in Babylon: 9789387669369
― The Richest Man in Babylon: 9789387669369
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