¶ Wealth
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Wealth:
"didn’t get advanced. What a big jump that was… from a basic accounting viewpoint. These are the things I find are not properly discussed by anybody, looking at things sumtotally, and I was thinking that it’s your business to understand what really is there and be able to tell management what they have. That is why I think this meeting is possibly one of the most important meetings I’ve ever had in my life.
"Q.-- ‘When you say that you can’t change wealth, are you saying that wealth can’t be destroyed?’
"I’m first trying to run down what wealth is. And I’m only saying that-- whatever it is-- it won’t work backwardly; it only works forwardly, today or tomorrow. And you just add all the things that seem to make a man wealthy, and I find it didn’t give him any forward tomorrow. So maybe that’s not what we’re looking for. I’m trying to find out what it really is. So I find out that whatever it is, it has to be one of two things. One is our Universe. Universe is physical, and, as Einstein said, is all energy. Energy associative as matter; energy disassociative as radiation. And we find it pulsing, going back and forth between-
¶ Citations
- RBF to Arthur Anderson & Co., (p.7), New York, 13 Mar’74
