There's a loss of autonomy that comes from not being able to own the wealth you've earned.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have always felt intuitively that somehow such wealth cannot be the privy of any one person or any one family.
The reason that so few people are financially independent today is that they place many negative roadblocks in their heads. Becoming wealthy is, in fact, a mind game.
Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.
The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
With wealth, one is in a position of responsibility. You must try to help others. It is as simple as that.
Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon.
The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.