Everyone's life changes when they meet their Obi-Wan & their Yoda, or their Morpheus & their Oracle; those who help remove the veil.

— Brandi L. Bates

Every opportunity, every influence and affluence you possess, could not have been for you alone, but to act as a platform to impact a generation.

— Sunday Adelaja

Granted, many of them replied, that socialism may not result in riches for all but rather in a smaller production of wealth; nevertheless the masses will be happier under socialism, because they will share their worries with all their fellow citizens, and there will not be wealthier classes to be envied by poorer ones. The starving and ragged workers of Soviet Russia, they tell us, are a thousand times more joyful than the workers of the West who live under conditions which are luxurious compared to Russian standards; equality in poverty is a more satisfactory state than well-being where there are people who can flaunt more luxuries than the average man.

— Ludwig von Mises

Greatness is in influence, and not necessarily in affluence. It is not achieved by being a 'paper millionaire', but by being a 'people millionaire'.

— Ogwo David Emenike

His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea...

— Brandi L. Bates

I don't want to be around people who accept me as is, in my unrefined state of becoming. I consistently want people around me who push and encourage me to be my ultimate best, who bring out the inner diamonds. Furthermore, I want to be around those intellectual giants who extract the gold within me, those who force me to read, to attend classes, seminars, conferences, and who steep me in an environment of perpetual growth and upward mobility. Not trying to be funny, but I've learned that I simply cannot afford to invest too much time around mediocrity. It's contagious.

— Brandi L. Bates

If I am to choose between integrity and wealth, I will go for integrity because I believe that lack of integrity is the first killer of wealthiest dreams!

— Israelmore Ayivor

If you have money, you are affluent; if you have joy, you are wealthy; and if you have love, you are rich.

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Influence creates affluence. Affluence does not create influence. Affluence makes you more of who you already are.

— Richie Norton

Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, then to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.

— Israelmore Ayivor