It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.Mark Twain
For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.Richard Branson
Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.Adam Smith
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.Adam Smith
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.Adam Smith
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.Edmund Burke
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.Jane Austen
