Wealth is when small efforts produce big results. Poverty is when big efforts produce small results.

Do not really like rich people, as they make us poor people feel dopey and inadequate. Not that we are poor. I would say we are middle. We are very, very lucky. I know that. But still, it is not right that rich people make us middle people feel dopey and inadequate.

Let’s first eradicate poverty before we promote wealth.

It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned even as a child. I knew it for a long time, but only now have I experienced it. And now I know it, I know it not only because I remember hearing it, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach. And it is good for me to know it!

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

Gather up dreams by the score: / Chasing them renders you poor. / Wisely let dreams come to you: / They'll make you wealthy, if true.