“Wealth will always find their way out of societies where truth and honesty are not established into the societies where there are principles of honesty and truth.”
“Wealth will always find a way of escaping from societies without an established system of truth and honesty, into societies that are well established in truth and honesty.”
“Our people must once again realize that it is only hard work and excellence that leads to wealth creation.”
“It must once again become a common knowledge to our people that it is only the wealth that we create that we can share.”
“The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that people began to understand that wealth and success is not a matter of luck.”
“Work therefore is designed to release all this abundance of wealth hidden inside everything.”
“Rich people don t elicit much sympathy. It is not about how to save, invest, spend, hide and give away money, but unmasking the true nature of money, how it works. Be the one to create the system that supports the kind of society we desire for ourselves and the future generation.”
“By vice, dissipation, and extravagance, [the nobility] have been driven to the most despicable, and often the most atrocious actions, for which persons in a humble line would be exemplarily punished, while men and women of rank claim the privilege of being infamous.”
“In the room of holding out an example for imitation, [the nobility] give only a warning to the lower classes of the people, who are taught to despise the boasted pre-eminence of birth, when attached to the meanest actions and most unwarrantable pursuits; and from hence proceeds all the licentiousness and spirit of equality that causes general disturbance.”
“Poverty s simplicity has an inexpensive beauty rooted in it, which the rich can never afford to buy”
“The wealth God has given to everyman is the wealth of TIME.”
“No paint or dye can give so splendid a colour as gilding. The merit of their beauty is greatly enhanced by their scarcity. With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves. In their eyes the merit of an object which is in any degree either useful or beautiful is greatly enhanced by its scarcity, or by the great labour which it requires to collect any considerable quantity of it, a labour which nobody can afford to pay but themselves. Book I, Chapter 11 - Rent of Land, part II”
“Wealth creeps under your epidermis like poison. It invades your posture, your gestures, the way you carry yourself.”
“We have glimpsed in it the future of high society: wealth without class.”
“It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.”
“Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty.”
“Unlike wealth, fame makes it easier for some men and more difficult for some to sleep around.”