It is so strange that people have the notion that wealth brings happiness. Why is that people put a thousand times more effort into increasing their wealth than increasing their wisdom? However, most everyone seems to understand that being happy is much more important than having an abundance of material things. I can think of nothing that is more useless than to acquire, increase, and hoard money. In my opinion the person who keeps what he has without sharing what he does not need is worse than the thief who stole what he needs to survive.
Arthur Schopenhauer