"I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.“

-Lord Acton

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"Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality."

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