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.
Start out by making 100 users really happy, rather than a lot more users only a little happy.
Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.
The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung.
The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.
For me right now I think being the world number one is a bigger deal than being the world champion because I think it shows better who plays the best chess. That sounds self-serving but I think it's also right.
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
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