Sublime
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leaving ordinary Americans more like subjects for the plans of others than participants in their own destiny.
Charles Reich • The Greening of America
Gould did not take a title, but had a seat on the executive committee and had four additional board seats, which he filled with his brokers.
Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
Wealth needs fences.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Bill and other wild buffaloes of the prairies. In other words, there is really present here a democratic instinct against the domination of wealth.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • What I Saw in America
Rich is a current income.
Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
Their creed was summed up in two quotes: Commodore Vanderbilt’s “Law? What do I care for law? Hain’t I got the power?” and J. P. Morgan’s “I owe the public nothing.”
Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
Monopoly Lies
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
But in the case of Andrew Jackson it may be that I felt a special sense of individual isolation; for I believe that there are even fewer among Englishmen than among Americans who realise that the energy of that great man was largely directed towards saving us from the chief evil which destroys the nations to-day. He sought to cut down, as with a sw
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