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Wealth seeks those who refuse to chase it.

To depend on money is to remain bound by it. To act as though it were irrelevant is to place oneself above its gravitational pull, drawing it in without submission.

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Sep 13, 2025
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The paradox of wealth is that it flows most abundantly to those who do not treat it as the highest object of pursuit. When money becomes the central compass, decisions shrink to the scale of survival and imitation, optimized for safety rather than creation. What results is a race to the middle, where talent and ambition are expended on extracting small advantages within boundaries drawn by others. Yet those who rise beyond this fixation treat capital not as an end but as a secondary force—an instrument for amplifying action already in motion.

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