Your word is your bond. If you can't keep your word then you can't keep anything. An ordinary man learns from his own experience. A fool learns from nobody's experience. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.
Money is one form of power.
But what is more powerful is financial education. Money comes and goes, but if you have the education about how money works, you gain power over it and can begin building wealth. The reason positive thinking alone does not work is because most people went to school and never learned how money works, so they spend their lives working for money. What's important is that you do care and you act. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island, cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.