“FOR great wealth is accumulated by cunning or chance, or a
mixture of the two. Cunning has nothing to do with high qualities; it is rather
a presumption against them; while chance has nothing to do with them either.
Therefore it is that men are always complaining after meeting So-and-so, that
he seemed to be astonishingly stupid, though he made a million in ten years and
started as a pauper.”
~ Hilaire Belloc: Essays of a Catholic
