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A candidate needs prestige or wealth, while talent and even genius matter little to success
Drawn from what Gustave Le Bon said
What Gustave Le Bon actually said
- Gustave Le Bon French social psychologist (1841 to 1931)
It is of primary importance that the candidate should possess prestige. Personal prestige can only be replaced by that resulting from wealth. Talent and even genius are not elements of success of serious importance.
Where this was said
↗The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1895; English translation, 1896)gutenberg.org
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