"On the one hand, the rich look..." - Quote by Indira Gandhi
On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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“Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.”
“You soon realize that the peak you've climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb...And the more you climb, the more you want to climb - even though you're dead tired.”
“Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.”
More on Poverty
“The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.”
“If you're a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you'll never have heard of Bill Gates.”
“If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.”
More on Wealth
“It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.”
“We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.”
“If you are not generous when it's difficult, you will not be generous when it's easy. Generosity is a function of the heart, not the wallet.”