Living in a State of Ambitious Poverty

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We all live in a state of ambitious poverty. – Juvenal

To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn $100 million into $110 million is inevitable. – Edgar Bronfman

To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober. – Logan Pearsall Smith

If all the rich men in the world divided up their money amongst themselve, there wouldn’t be enough to go around. – Christina Stead

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year. –Leonardo da Vinci

The man who dies rich dies disgraced. – Andrew Carnegie

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It's Hard to put up with the Annoyance of a Good Example

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Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind. – Louis Pasteur

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. – Andrew Carnegie

If self-interest is your goal, you don’t understand the problem. You also don’t know the law: Give to get. – Jeffrey G. Allen

The president of our company says he’s surrounded by yes men. He told me so himself, and I agreed with him. – Anonymous

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. – Mark Twain

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. – Albert Einstein

All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. – William Butler Yeats

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Darkly Comical Quotes

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. – Andrew Carnegie

No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. – Henry Ward Beecher

Minds are like parachutes – they only function when open. – Lord Thomas Dewar

A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities. – Jules Ormont

Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly. – Solon

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is left long without proper reward. – Booker T. Washington

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. – Richard E. Byrd

The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. – Whately

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it has to be done, whether you like it or not. – Parks Cousins