"‘I was engaged to Jacob Gardner — an obviously wealthy man if he could commission an Andrew Southern portrait of me — and then when I met Andrew Southern I changed my allegiance to him — probably because I discovered he was the wealthier of the two men?’ she prompted."
"Then there was Richard Fermor, another close intimate of the king, and an extremely wealthy man who had made his money from provisioning the royal army throughout its campaigns."
"The late Russell H. Conwell, founder of Temple University and a gifted lecturer, used to tell the story of a wealthy man in ancient Persia named Ali Hafed, who sold his farm and took the money to finance his search for a diamond mine."