Aldous Huxley Quotes

6 quotes from Aldous Huxley on investing, entrepreneurship and motivation.

On investing

• The rich never have a chance of being neighborly to their equals. The best they can do is feel mawkish about the sufferings of their inferiors, which they can never begin to understand, and to be patronizingly kind.

• Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived.

• He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperity with money to spend in a shop.

On entrepreneurship

• The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

On motivation

• Every change is a menace to stability.

• Every ceiling when reached becomes a floor upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.