The meek are a hell of a long way from inheriting the earth.

Wealth eludes most people because they are preoccupied with events while disregarding process. Without process, there is no event.

If you secretly despise wealth, it will elude you.

La riqueza elude a la mayoría de las personas porque están preocupadas por los acontecimientos y no tienen en cuenta el proceso. Pero sin el proceso no se produce el acontecimiento.

The vastness of the universe-and love, the thing that makes the vastness bearable-is out of reach to the arrogant.

Wealth creation is not a business suited to those whose skill set
consists of voting “present.” It requires decision making, risk taking,
hard information, discipline, insight, and intelligence.

We long for what we cannot have, yet desire it not so much because it would benefit us, as because it is beyond our reach.

But the truth is that wealth is what you don’t see. Wealth is the nice cars not purchased. The diamonds not bought. The watches not worn, the clothes forgone and the first-class upgrade declined. Wealth is financial assets that haven’t yet been converted into the stuff you see.

Truth and Virtue do not necessarily belong to wealth and Power and Distinctions of Big Mansions.

Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing.

It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response to an accession of wealth.

We need to stop tolerating and celebrating unexplained wealth.

The amount of wealth produced is nowhere commensurate with the desire for wealth, and desire mounts with every additional opportunity for gratification.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.