We lost our way and allowed greed and excess to become the twin pillars of too much of the financial culture. We became a society utterly absorbed in consumption and dismissive of moderation.
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 Tom Brokaw
You are educated. Yourcertification is in yourdegree. You may think ofit as the ticket to the goodlife. Let me ask you to think of analternative. Think of it as yourticket to change the world.
In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up.
You are not expected to know, but you are expected to wish to know.
I've adopted the guideline of Warren Buffett's partner, Charlie Munger, who says "I wanna know where I'll be when I die - so I never go there.
Seventy-six for an American male was a number on an actuarial chart that includes men who are obese, smokers and inheritors of deadly family genes.
