80% of people work for money. The rest are called successful people.

Dhaval Gajera
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80% of people work for money. The rest are called successful people. This quote by J. Paul Getty is pretty intriguing because it makes the point that success is not determined by the number of employees that a company has or how much money they earn. It also shows that people will work for money, but they go beyond the job and become successful in every aspect of their life and love what they do.

Source: Make It Happen: With 30 Greatest Life Lessons

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