There are a group of people who are managing the world to their advantage and who just look to the rest of us as people who will buy their products and fund their salaries.
What is it, in your opinion, to be a great nobleman? It is to be master of several objects that men covet, and thus to be able to satisfy the wants and the desires of many. It is these wants and these desires that attract them towards you, and that make them submit to you: were it not for these, they would not even look at you; but they hope, by these services. . . to obtain from you some part of the good which they desire, and of which they see that you have the disposal.