"It is odd, is it not, that a person's worth to society is measured by their wealth, when instead their wealth should be measured by their worth to society?"
A. Cygni
"Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs painting."
Billy Rose
"No pressure, no diamonds."
Mary Case
"Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth."
Rex Stout
"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes"
Francis Bacon, English philosopher and statesman Of Adversity