With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.
Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
Resentment is not morally superior to earning money.
I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.
There's a loss of autonomy that comes from not being able to own the wealth you've earned.
I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
Human nature is you work shoulder to shoulder in a real emotional kind of setting, and there are jealousies that come up. There's resentment, and resentment turns to just outright bad things.
I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
So what exactly are the rewards of resentment. It is always a relief to know that the reason we have failed in life is not because we lack the talent, energy, or determination to succeed, but because of a factor that is beyond our control and that has loaded the dice decisively against us.
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