Corruption, ' Jordan Belfort believes, 'is endemic to human being. I mean, even men in monasteries - where enticement is hard to come by — even men in those circumstances have sex with other men and abuse children. Look at the Catholic Church! Man is an imperfect animal and he is corruptible, okay? And in finance, the liquid nature of the market makes corruption very easy. On Wall Street, this liquidity is so in your face -' he suddenly grits his teeth - 'that if you have even the slightest predisposition to the dark side, you become corrupted. In addition to which, those attracted to Wall Street have a predisposition to greed. Antonella GambottoBurke
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?
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Brian Tracy
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
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Horace Mann
If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
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Jasper Fforde
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
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Diogenes Of Sinope
More Quotes By Antonella GambottoBurke
Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground like leaves. They were swept up as memories, and burned. History owns them. These men were petrified in both senses of...
The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different. In externalizing the source of their self-esteem, they surrender all...
My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was because we had not seen it modelled. We lurched from relationship to relationship, dazzled by the newness of meaninglessness, relentless in our search for something...
Strauss admits to being obsessed by his mother's rejection, and with the resultant rents in self-esteem. The Game echoes with disturbingly abusive comments leveled at his adolescent self, a self he feels was unacceptable. With bravado, he expresses regret that he didn’t rack up more...
It is only through my daughter that I have come to realise that a life without femininity — devoid of mystery, emotion, gentleness and the unerring power of a woman’s love — is no life at all.
