"If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters"
- E. F. Schumacher
About this Quote
This quote by E. F. Schumacher is a warning about the risks of allowing economic aspirations to end up being too powerful. He is recommending that while financial ambitions can be helpful and assist us to attain our goals, they can also end up being a source of control and control. If we allow financial ambitions to become our masters, they can lead us down a course of greed and selfishness, and away from our real values and goals. We should be careful to keep our economic aspirations in check, and to make sure that they remain our servants, not our masters. Otherwise, we risk forgeting our real purpose and values, and allowing our financial aspirations to become our main focus.