If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.

Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you’ve done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I’ll be damned, I did this today. It doesn’t matter how good it is, or how bad-you did it. At the end of the week you’ll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I’ll be damned, it’s been a good year.

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

In almost every enterprise, government has provided business with opportunities for private gain at public expense. Government nurtures private capital accumulation through a process of subsidies, supports, and deficit spending and an increasingly inequitable tax system.

Life is enriched by aspiration and effort, rather than by acquisition and accumulation.

Prosperity in a society is the accumulation of solutions to human problems.