“If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.”

“The Master said, “Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way I will not abide them. Poverty and disgrace are things that all people hate, and yet unless they are avoided in the proper way I will not despise them. “If the gentleman abandons ren, how can he be worthy of that name? The gentleman does not violate ren even for the amount of time required to eat a meal. Even in times of urgency or distress, he does not depart from it.”(Analects 4.5)”

“To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”

“If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.”

“We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living”

“The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.”

“To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.”