“Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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American architect (1867-1959) 1867–1959

William J. Bernstein (1948) economist

Source: The Four Pillars of Investing (2002), Chapter 7, Misbehavior, p. 179.

“Too many people believe that they have to wait until they are wealthy to follow their passion, when in fact, it will be their passion that will make them wealthy.”

Jay Samit (1961) American businessman

Future Proofing You (2021)

“More high-reaching, subtle, many-sided, curious and profound than the Greek, more noble and humane than the Roman, more large and spiritual than the old Egyptian, more vast and original than any other Asiatic civilization, more intellectual than the European prior to the 18th century, possessing all that these had and more, it was the most powerful, self-possessed, stimulating and wide in influence of all past human cultures.”

Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet

The Foundations of Indian Culture (1953), p. 31

“She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women (1868), Ch. 34 : Friend

“There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.”

Walter Cronkite (1916–2009) American broadcast journalist

Free the Airwaves! (2002)

“Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.”

Plutarch book Parallel Lives

Sertorius, sec. 16
Parallel Lives

“Writing for TV was a huge influence on this book, partly because you realize in casting what a vast gap there was between who people are and who they play. You sometimes see Shakespearan trained actors playing janitors. And at the same time, I’ve seen actresses who are really well known for playing wealthy, super cultured women come in and they are well, let’s just say the exact opposite.”

Veronica Chambers (1970) writer

On how writing for television influenced her novel The Go-Between in “Author Interview: Veronica Chambers questions Mexican immigrant stereotypes in ‘The Go-Between’” https://www.hypable.com/author-interview-veronica-chambers-the-go-between/ in Hypable (2017 May 9)

“Every generation has its defining works. More than 300,000 people worked to put a man on the moon – including that janitor. Millions of volunteers immunized children around the world against polio. Millions of more people built the Hoover dam and other great projects. These projects didn’t just provide purpose for the people doing those jobs, they gave our whole country a sense of pride that we could do great things.”

Mark Zuckerberg (1984) American internet entrepreneur

Harvard Graduation Speech (2017)

“Undoubtedly many more people in the world are concerned with sports than with human rights.”

Samuel P. Huntington (1927–2008) American political scientist

Source: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996), Ch. 8 : The West and the Rest: Intercivilizational Issues, § 3 : Human Rights And Democracy, p. 197

“The search for truth is more precious than its possession.”

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781) writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic

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