Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Cash suggests that true success comes with significant non-financial worries.
- In plain terms
- When you are successful, you worry about everything except money.
- What can you take from it?
- Success shifts your worries from money to everything else.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Does money solve all problems?
- What burdens come with success?
Another view
It downplays the stress that financial instability can also cause.
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