{"id":130,"date":"2007-05-18T16:08:28","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T16:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/?p=130"},"modified":"2009-01-08T10:59:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T15:59:01","slug":"happiness-quotient-bank-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/18\/happiness-quotient-bank-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness Quotient <> Bank Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found these laying around in a file on my PC.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Where is happiness found?  John Rockefeller, a Christian millionaire said, &#8220;I have made many millions, but they brought me no happiness.  I would barter them all for the days I sat on an office stool in Cleveland and counted myself rich on three dollars a week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>W.H. Vanderbilt said, &#8220;The care of 200 million dollars is too great a load for any brain or back to bear.  It is enough to kill anyone.  There is no pleasure in it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>John Jacob Astor left five million, but had been a martyr to dyspepsia and melancholy.  He said, &#8220;I am the most miserable man on earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Henry Ford, the automobile king, said, &#8220;Work is the only pleasure.  It is only work that keeps me alive and makes life worth living.  I was happier when doing a mechanic&#8217;s job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Carnegie, the multi-millionaire, said, &#8220;Millionaires seldom smile.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A. Naismith as quoted by Paul Lee Tan #3546<\/p>\n<p><em>Regarding the title of this post, &#8220;&lt;&gt;&#8221; means &#8220;does not equal.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found these laying around in a file on my PC. Where is happiness found? John Rockefeller, a Christian millionaire said, &#8220;I have made many millions, but they brought me no happiness. I would barter them all for the days &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/18\/happiness-quotient-bank-balance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-life","tag-money"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvmV-26","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}