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The Buddha teaches us how to manage wealth.

To begin learning skills and crafts, it is convenient to accumulate wealth. Once you have obtained wealth, you should divide it into four parts: one part for personal use, two parts for livelihood, and the remaining part kept in reserve to prepare for poverty. --- "The Miscellaneous Collection of the Agama Sutras"
1. Legal Wealth
Buddhism does not completely deny wealth; gold is a poisonous snake, but gold is also the sustenance for spreading the Dharma and benefiting living beings. As the saying goes, "A gentleman loves wealth and obtains it through the right means." As long as the wealth is obtained legally, it can be used for the welfare of others, and the more wealth, the better.
2. Ways to Get Rich
Wealth is something that everyone desires, but how can it be obtained legally? In society, the most fundamental way to accumulate wealth is to learn various skills such as working, doing business, and farming. At the same time, one must also be diligent, frugal, generous, confident, build relationships, and give. Only in this way can one achieve prosperity.
3. How to Manage Wealth
Legitimate wealth obtained through hard work is classified into four parts in the "Samyutta Nikaya:"
1. Divide into quarters for personal use, using one quarter for clothing, food, housing, and transportation needs.
2. Division of Business: Retain half of the business operations and continue to invest.
Three, the remaining one part is to be kept secret: the other part should be saved for emergencies.
4. Conclusion
In Buddhism, the method of dealing with wealth, apart from the four divisions of wealth in the "Saṃyukta Āgama", is the four divisions of wealth in the "Vimalakīrti Sūtra: The Section on Abandonment" as follows:
1. A bit of wealth, always seeking interest to look after the family business.
2. One share of treasure, to be used daily, to provide for what is needed.
Three, a share of wealth, generously given to the lonely, cultivates blessings.
Fourth, a share of wealth, to assist relatives and friends, to host guests.
In the "Mahāyāna Sutra of the Great Treasure" with the example of King Bāshānī, it illustrates that the method of handling wealth is to divide it into three parts.
First, a share is offered to the Tathagata, the World-Honored One, and the assembly of bhikshus.
2. To give one part to the poor and distressed, those without support, in the city of Sravasti.
Three, a portion of assets shall be reserved for national use.
In the "Bodhi Sūtra," the approach to handling wealth states that, apart from essential living needs, there is a fourfold method:
1. To support parents and wife.
Second, to look after the guests and servants.
3. To inform relatives and friends of the施
Four, to serve the Lord and the True God, the monk and Taoist.
If wealth can be managed using the above methods, home life will surely be stable and prosperous.