To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.
I am more rich in goods than I am in money.
It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.
Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.
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.
I'm not a religious person; I'm not even, like, a spiritual person.
A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.
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...
The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work minding a machine or sweeping out a lavatory. 'Anything,' he thinks, 'any injustice, sooner than let that mob loose.' He ...
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...
