What is Wealth

FinanceWealth-Building

  • Author Ronald Kang
  • Published August 4, 2007
  • Word count 495

We choose our own destiny. Each living person chooses and they will take the responsibility along with the result. Each time that passes, his choice will be deeper and deeper in his daily life. Actually, wealth is created through a state of mind. Most people become rich and keep growing rich and still not have a feeling that they have become wealth. In the other side, poor people feel enough for what he has done and they enjoying their life. To acquire money and property is a simple and easy process. Once you are on the road to wealth, it is impossible to stop the growth.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca from Rome said, "If you live according to what nature requires, you will never be poor. If according to the notions of men, you will never be rich. This is especially detrimental to us, what we live, not according to the light of reason, but after the fashion set by others." The problem to getting wealth is still the same until now. Same things kept people poor today and the principles of getting wealth have not changed since the year one.

Most people in the world are afraid having poverty condition, it can turn a good man to be criminal to getaway from the poverty. For everyone who have the will of progress, they didn't have this fear. Thucydides (425 B.C.) said that, "An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful."

It has been understood by man until now that he who made little or no effort to rise above poverty, was largely responsible for his own unhappy condition. There is a difference between poverty and pauperism, though it is only a short slide. One who has a misfortune may have no avenue to escape from becoming a pauper. This pauper needs help. But the poor are those who spend more than they get or spend all that they get. They cannot control their expenses and exceed his income. If that person be in that condition for a long time enough, he will be a pauper.

We live to live. All of us are climbing to reach our dreams to reach wealth, ease, comfort, and even contentment. But dreams will end in dreams if we don't work hard and sacrifice now. Poverty comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance and folly. That means for you who is reading this article by now, the way to wealthy is open to you.

"Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, leisure and liberty." - James Russell Lowell.

Wealth is a state of mind. To change your life from poverty to wealthy, or to grow your wealth, all you need to do is change your mind from the previous thought. Discover the way to the wealth and apply those principle in your life. And there's an exact result that you are on your way to reach wealth.

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