People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But the problem is that it's all backwards. It's not that you do the right thing and hope it pays off; the morally right thing is by definition the thing that gives the biggest payoff. Tana French
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Meaning of this quote This is a famous quote by Peter Thiel, the founder of Paypal. He gave it in an interview for Forbes. In this quote he is saying that people need a moral code to make decisions. He says that all these virtuous Bio-Yogurt and self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But he is also saying that the morally right thing is by definition the thing that gives the biggest payoff.

Source: In The Woods

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