The ultimate idea of rags-to-riches success in America is the Hollywood movie star.
If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.
I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.
As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
There is a volatile mix, and that's because we're all intense. And there's no denying that.
Who is blind? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich? He who is happy with his lot.
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.
The bachelor is a peacock, the engaged man a lion, and the married man a jackass.
Dr. Frederick Treves: Am I a good man? Or a bad man?
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they became with it, and with themselves as well. They made a garden of pleasure, and became progressively more miserable with it as it grew in richness and power and bea...
In actuality, it was like the homes of all people who are not really rich but who want to look rich, and therefore end up looking like one another: it had damasks, ebony, plants, carpets, and bronzes, everything dark and gleaming—all the effects a ...
Many skills, as every successful entrepreneur knows, cannot be taught in school. They require doing. Sometimes a life of doing. And where money-making is concerned, nothing compresses the time frame needed to leap from my-shit-just-sits-there-until-i...
Perhaps J. P. Morgan did as a child have very severe feelings of inadequacy, perhaps his father did believe that he would not amount to anything; perhaps this did effect in him an inordinate drive for power for power’s sake. But all this would be q...
Alex: [voice over] This is Grandfather. Like my father and myself, he too is dubbed Alex. My grandmother, Anna, died two years before of a cancer in her brain. Precluding this, Grandfather became very melancholy, and also, he says, blind. His most re...
God has many reasons to make us rich, poor and happy and unhappy But he has never given more time to someone or less to others TIME continues to equalize all in the world and an unifying force never violated rule of equality, the Day you do good you ...
Hang a German, even if he is a good man.
The open house makes a good man of the thief.
A well mannered man does not step on the shadow of his fellow man.
