They start companies because they get tired of working for others and want to build wealth before they retire.
They were driven by a desire to build wealth, commercialize business idea they had and to stop working for others.
Each man, imagining that he's working for his own advantage, is at the same time inadvertently working to increase the general wealth.
Everybody should work for their own wealth.
If more people are willing to work for less, more wealth is created.
Man's intellect, his ability to tap the cosmic resources of energy and make them work for him, had really caused wealth to be regenerative, or self-augmenting.
Taibbi quotes a friend who worked for a Gulf-region sovereign wealth fund, apparently offered a stake in the turnpike by American investment bankers, and also makes reference to a small Pennsylvanian businessman called Robert Lukens.
They may be, as he was before he became successful, children of welfare families, growing up to work for minimum wages while enormous wealth accrues to the privileged few.
In terms of Mnuchin's own political contributions, like the firm he once worked for, he's spread the wealth around.
Money in the hands of the working public, the economic prime mover, will entice investment that adds value to the economic system, putting some of that fallow wealth to work for us instead of against us.
