Money is an amplifier. It makes good people better and bad people worse by creating opportunities they wouldn't have had without it.

Sager frames wealth not as a moral force in itself but as a multiplier of whatever character already exists. By expanding a person’s options—access, influence, time, and the ability to act at scale—money can intensify virtues like generosity and responsibility or magnify vices like greed and exploitation. The quote pushes back against the idea that money inherently corrupts or inherently ennobles; instead, it suggests that resources reveal and extend underlying values. It also implies an ethical warning: acquiring wealth increases one’s capacity to do harm or good, so character and accountability matter more, not less, as means grow.