According to a Roper Center study in 1975, a lot of Americans thought the good life meant a happy marriage, one or more children,
Quotes
Status of luxury goods in China, Vogue China editor Angelica Cheung
Most Chinese buy luxury as a status symbol rather than taste. They like logos. They want people to know they are carrying something expensive.
Chinese buying luxury goods for status
Chinese people will gladly spend a price premium for goods that are publicly consumed. But it’s like buying a big glob of shiny glitter.
Christian Louboutin, French shoe designer
I see these men who build luxury brands to make money, and I am working in the same industry but I feel I have
Lorenzo Anello, A Bronx Tale
The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.
Ayn Rand, Valuing
Your soul has a single basic function; the act of valuing.
Ayn Rand, Celebrity
“When the fact that one is a total nonentity who’s done nothing more outstanding than eating, sleeping, and chatting with neighbors becomes a fact
Ayn Rand, Comparisons
I don’t make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything.
Stephen Barrow, Investment manager
Wealth is not created by financial engineering. Financial engineering tends to be a transfer of wealth…The only real way to create wealth is to
Ayn Rand
It takes two to make a very great career; the man who is great, and the man – almost rarer – who is great