“Possession make you rich? I don't have that type of richness. My richness is Life, forever.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Interview for the Australian TV show 60 Minutes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LnxGoglJck
“With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.”
Source: (1776), Book I, Chapter XI, Part II, p. 202 (See also Thorstein Veblen).
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