“...wealth without pride is the way of the great sage.”

“A person probably couldn't live without pride. But living by pride, alone the prospects were too dark. Way too dark.”

“Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.”

“Persons born in wealth and luxury seldom achieve greatness. They were not born for labour; and, without labour, nothing that is worth having can be won.”

“The natural desire of the human mind is to become special - to become special in the ways of the world, to have many degrees, to have much political power, to have money, wealth - to be special. The mind is always ready to go on some ego trip. And if you are fed up with the world, then again the ego starts finding new ways and new means to enhance itself - it becomes spiritual. You become a great mahatma, a great sage, a great scholar, a man of knowledge, a man of renunciation; again you are special. Unless the desire to be special disappears, you will never be special. Unless you relax into your ordinariness, you will never relax.”

“Great wealth is often created by the launching of great surprises, not by the launching of great enterprises.”