{"id":57,"date":"2010-01-25T08:29:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T15:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=57"},"modified":"2010-01-25T08:29:22","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T15:29:22","slug":"money-and-the-perfect-is-the-enemy-of-the-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/25\/money-and-the-perfect-is-the-enemy-of-the-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Money and “The perfect is the enemy of the good”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day, I noodled about that famous Voltaire quote<\/a>. While googling the phrase, I came across series of 14 articles<\/a> on the Get Rich Slowly site. (The ninth article in the series is “The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good.”)<\/p>\n

Since avoiding unnecessary debt and financial dependency are among the basics of living free, I thought I’d toss the series to you for a read. It’s filled with solid advice even if you don’t aim to get rich, slowly, quickly, or any other way. In fact, the last article in the series is “It’s more important to be happy than rich.”<\/p>\n

Amen to that.<\/p>\n

But on the other hand … being both<\/i> rich and happy would be sort of nice. And would it be too much to add good looking while we’re at it?<\/p>\n

As my very favorite actor, the magnificently independent and quirky (and rich, happy, and good-looking) Johnny Depp quoted from his private island<\/a> in the Caribbean: “Money doesn\u2019t buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.” (NB: A few bits of non-family-friendly language in the linked Vanity Fair<\/i> article.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day, I noodled about that famous Voltaire quote. While googling the phrase, I came across series of 14 articles on the Get Rich Slowly site. (The ninth article in the series is “The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good.”) Since avoiding unnecessary debt and financial dependency are among the basics of living free, I thought I’d toss the series to you for a read. It’s filled with solid advice even if you don’t aim to get rich, slowly, quickly, or any other way. In fact, the last article in the series is “It’s more important to be…<\/p>\n

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