“Sometimes wealth and power merely created the desire for more of the same.”

“Knowledge is a desire that comes after acquiring power. The first type of desire is love, then wealth, health, power and knowledge.”

“A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.”

“Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.”

“We must consider that wisdom is embedded in knowledge. Here is the list of the desires in order: Love, wealth, health, power and knowledge.”

“We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents.”

“More than anything else technology creates our world. It creates our wealth, our economy, our very way of being.”

“Time is the wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.”

“Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.”

“The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth in what seems to be an instant.”