Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.
Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.