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“I learned that as long as I had anything in my heart or head I still felt necessary to hide, it would not work. I had to come to peace with everything.”
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“Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend.”
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“I wake up every morning and think to myself, 'How far can I push the company forward in the next 24 hours?”
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“When I'm feeling proud of myself, I should remember to ask myself why I think I am of any value at all. I have done nothing that a hundred thousand other people couldn't do, and most of them would probably do it better, and they probably wouldn't feel so self-important about it. I should always be ashamed of myself.”
Source : "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.
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“At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.”
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“A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.”
Source : John Stuart Blackie (1901). “The day-book of John Stuart Blackie”
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“It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to capital for companies that make things. Rather, it seems, Wall Street is using government bailouts to lever up.”
Source : "Wall Street Has a Gambling Problem" by Sen. Maria Cantwell, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
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“Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens.”
Source : Charles Derber (2015). “Sociopathic Society: A People's Sociology of the United States”, p.107, Routledge