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Rockefeller’s advice – 4

Rockefeller’s advice – 4

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 Auto-generated transcript:We come to Rockefeller's letters and advice to his son, Principle 4. It's a very interesting one. He says, money is fire. Use it or get burnt. And the commentator says that Rockefeller never worshipped money. He compared it to fire. He said it can warm your home or burn it down. It can feed the hungry or destroy the greedy. He donated 500 million and secured his legacy. The interesting thing to understand, as far as money is concerned, is that we live in an environment where we are taught to define ourselves in terms of money, to actually chase money, because we are told that money is what runs the world and therefore your net worth defines you and so and so's net worth is this much and net worth is that much. So effectively you're saying that a person is worth the value of his or her possessions. Now just think about that. Just the thought that your worth, who you are, what you are, your worth is to be measured, or that's what they want you to do, in terms of how many things you have. So whether those are shares in a company or whether they are your houses or cars or whatever, this is your worth. And the whole idea of this is because we live in an environment where the ruling principle is commercialism. The religion is commercialism. And the temples of that religion are the shopping malls, online or online. So you know you buy things with money, you don't say if somebody hasn't bought, if somebody has been in mộtv Bag Que Bagmon Hbt Л ath suppressor dan something bad and then goats come to you. And things like that. Actually I don't think I've done all that, only bought things for myself. And actually I do three things, is to encourage you to buy more. It's to encourage you to buy more, it's to encourage you to buy without thinking because I can always return it. While the people who are selling, they make money as long as they can register a sale. So it doesn't matter how long the person uses that thing which he bought, doesn't matter. As long as he can register a sale, he's fine with that. So therefore, it's something that, you know, therefore the money is what we are chasing. The fact of life is that money is the result of quality effort. So if you produce quality, money will follow. But if you chase money, then money is like a shadow. The more you chase it, the more it goes away from you. If the sun is behind you and your shadow is in front of you, then if you are running behind that shadow, you will never catch it because as you run, the shadow is in front of you. It's always in front of you. You can never catch the shadow. But if you turn around and you face the sun, then the shadow is chasing you. It's not the other way around, right? The shadow is chasing you. So that's how it is. If you are, if you are chasing the sun, if you are chasing quality, if you are chasing quality, then you find that money will come to you. You don't have to worry about money. But if you chase money, then quality will disappear. Because one of the first things that people do when they are chasing money is they are tempted to, I'm not saying everybody does it, but most people do it. They are tempted to sacrifice quality in order to make money. And of course, they will have all kinds of reasons they are doing it. They will make excuses and so on and so forth. But they will try to sacrifice quality and they will try to, you know, take shortcuts in order to make money. This is how the whole thing functions. People are willing to sell their honor because to make money, one of the ways of making money, a dishonorable, horrible way is to take bribes. People will do that. Shaitan tries to tempt them and say that one of the ways of making money is to take bribes. One of the ways to make money is to get into debt. That's how they send you credit cards free in the mail and they sign you on for nothing because then you start buying. You are in their clutches. As soon as you start buying, then of course you have to repay
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