Why are some people more successful in business? Why do some businesses flourish where others fail? Renowned business speaker and author, Brian Tracy has discovered the answers to these profoundly puzzling questions.
How perverse! Just when everything seems to be in order and as families gather round the table to have supper, the phantom of the Superclass appears, selling impossible dreams,: luxury, beauty, power. And the family falls apart.
The well-off and the secure have too often become indifferent and oblivious to the poverty and deprivation in their midst. The poor... have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible... Ultimately, a great nation is a compassionate nation. No individual or nation can be great if it does not have a concern for 'the least of these.
— Martin Luther King Jr., Our Daily Journey with God
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Let's pass over to the really rich- how often the occasions they look just like to poor! When they travel abroad they must restrict their baggage, and when haste is necessary, they dismiss their entourage. And those who are in the army, how few of their possessions they get to keep..." —Seneca, On Consolation to Helvia, 12.1.b-2
