“Real wealth is never having to spend time with assholes.” ~~ paraphrased from John Waters’ commencement speech at RISD, 2015
Here’s the salient part of the actual text:
“… I have figured out how to never be around assholes at any time in my personal and professional life. That’s rich. And not being around assholes should be the goal of every graduate here today.”
And he brings up another excellent concept here:
“…the poor of spirit… can have a big bank balance but is stupid by choice – uncurious, judgemental, isolated and unavailable to change.“