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.
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
Being criticized in the media is a good problem to have - most of the time. It means you're doing something that is at least interesting or cool or crazy enough to be noticed. It might not always feel good, but it's usually better than the alternative of obscurity.
My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.
Try first to be a man of value; success will follow.
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