When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
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So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.
Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sometimes people who get wealthy when they are very, very young, it's a curse to them. They don't realize it.
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
The rich continue to get rich the same way they always have - by understanding how money works and making their money work for them.
Where wealth is concerned, individuals aren't stuck in little boxes. You don't start out wealthy, stay wealthy, and end wealthy.
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