You want to get rich in order that you may surround yourself with beautiful things, see distant lands, feed your mind, and develop your intellect; in order that you may love others and do kind things, and be able to play a good part in helping the world to find truth.
Interpretation
We seek wealth not just for material gain, but to enrich our lives and contribute positively to the world.
This quote emphasizes that the pursuit of wealth should not be merely for personal enjoyment or material possessions. Instead, it suggests that financial success enables individuals to experience beauty, travel, enrich their minds, cultivate love for others, and engage in altruistic actions that contribute to the greater good and promote truth in society.
In practice
This quote would be perfect to inspire students during a graduation ceremony.
In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy. It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude.
Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.
That which makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plant grow; it is life seeking fuller expression.
Never look at the visible supply; always look at the limitless riches in the formless substance and know that they are coming to you as fast as you can receive and use them.
Victory is much more meaningful when it comes not just from one person, but from the joint achievements of many.
In business, the earning of profit is something more than an incident of success. It is an essential condition of success. It is an essential condition of success because the continued absence of profit itself spells failure.
I've enjoyed all the parts of my career.
When I was racing, I had learned that you can't set stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name, but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow - hero to zero, I sometimes say.
Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win.
I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.
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