Three things money cannot do for you

While we all are aware of the power of money, there are certain things which money just cant do. Some interesting insights from an article which says that money can only make us rich. Beyond making us rich money, it can do anything else. It cannot change our attitudes towards ourselves an life in general.


Interesting excerpts from HBR (Harvard Business Review) Blogs

• Money truly can't buy happiness, especially if you're unhappy to begin with. 

"If you are worrying about vegetables now, you'll be worrying about yachts then. You're a worrier. It's in you, not the money. Life, except for the obvious physical needs, is not so much defined by the external situation as by the inner one. Having money won't change your internal makeup. If you're an anxious sonofabitch without money, you're going to be an anxious sonofabitch with a lot of money."

• Being rich does not make you smart — especially about things other than money. 

"I met a guy who worked his way up from zero to a half-billion dollars," the philosopher noted. "I asked him, 'What was the most surprising thing you discovered when you got rich?' He said, 'Everybody asks my opinion about things because they think I know something. All I really know is how to make a lot of money.' See, this guy wasn't fooled by his money. That's the key.

• Being rich does not automatically lead to a rich life. 

"There is a difference between money and success. To be totally engaged with all my functions, all my faculties, all my capacities in life — to me that would be success. I grew up around the Yiddish language, and in Yiddish there are about 1,000 words that mean "fool." There's only one word that means an authentic human being: mensch. My grandmother would say, "You've got to be a mensch," and that has to do with what we used to call character. To be successful means to have developed character... You should be looking for the joy, the struggle, and the challenge of work. What you bring forth from your own guts and heart. The happiness of hard work. No amount of money can buy that. Those are things of the spirit."