Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Wilde's barb isn't really about fiscal recklessness at all—it's about the poverty of a life lived without aspiration or vision. He's suggesting that imagination means wanting something beyond your current circumstances, that the merely prudent person has already surrendered to the world as it is. Consider the friend who talks endlessly about the novel they'll write "someday" while living comfortably within their salary: Wilde would say their contentment reveals not virtue but a failure of the dreaming mind. The sting lies in recognizing that imagination and ambition are moral acts, not luxuries.
“Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you.”
Tony Hsieh“It's not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
Seneca“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”
Ayn Rand“Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they...”
Will Rogers