Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- Sidney Madwed, (Jan 0 0-____), US poet, quotationist, motivational speaker; He published The Poor Man's University, a collection of over 8,800 quotations for speakers, writers and communicators.