Samuel Johnson Quotes
12 quotes from Samuel Johnson on investing and motivation.
On investing
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.
On motivation
It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.
Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures.
Prudence keeps life safe but does not often make it happy.
He that has much to do will do something wrong.
Language is the dress of thought.
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.