“a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire.. The cold within him froze his old features.”

“set a goal to become a millionaire for what it makes of you to achieve it. Do it for the skills you have to learn and the person you have to become.

“Do it for what you’ll end up knowing about the marketplace. What you’ll learn about the management of time and working with people. Do it for the ability of discovering how to keep your ego in check.

“For what you have to learn about being benevolent. Being kind as well as being strong. What you have to learn about society and business and government and taxes and becoming an accomplished person to reach the status of millionaire.”

“What’s more important is who did I have to become in order to become a millionaire? I had to learn how to overcome my fears. I had to learn how to talk in front of groups. I had to learn how to plan a speech. I had to learn how to ask people I was initially afraid of to loan me money, etc.

“All of that was scary. But, when I did it and survived it, I was no longer afraid to do it in the future. Now you can take away my house, my money, my car and everything, and it wouldn’t matter. I know how to create more of those things because of who I’ve become NOT what I possess.”