If you are rich, you can help the world; if you are poor, you can only take care of yourself.

"If you are poor, you can be good for yourself alone; if you are prosperous, you can help the world." comes from "Mencius: Doing Your Heart". The original sentence is "If you are poor, you can be good for yourself alone; if you are prosperous, you can help the world." It means "When you don't have ambitions, clean yourself and cultivate yourself personally." Moral character, when you succeed, will make the world like it."

Original text

Mencius said to Goujian of Song Dynasty: "Is your son fond of traveling? I say Ziyou: When people know it, they also clamor (3);

People don’t know how to be so noisy.”

He said, “How can we be so noisy?” If you do not lose your righteousness, you will not deviate from the Tao.

If you are poor, you will not deviate from the righteousness, so a scholar will gain his own power; if you achieve something, you will not deviate from the Tao, so the people will not be disappointed. , Benefit to the people; if you don’t have ambition, you can cultivate yourself and be good to the world.