You are told that you must earn so that you can spend, and you must spend so that you can have some small thing to do that you enjoy. You are told that you can do that thing you enjoy for a while, but then you need to go back and earn so
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“In school, failure is a bad thing. Marked by a bloody F and a parental beatdown, failure is admonished. Fail and you’re grounded! No TV, no iPad! Is it any shock that straight-A students make great employees while the C-students are the guys hiring them? The A-students do as they’re told, follow rules unquestioningly and stay within the lines. Meanwhile, C-student and future billionaire Johnny is a ninth grader’s newest BFF—he’s underneath the bleachers selling his older brother’s Playboys at twenty-five dollars a pop.”
― UNSCRIPTED: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship
― UNSCRIPTED: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship
“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses. ~ Plato, Philosopher”
― UNSCRIPTED: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship
― UNSCRIPTED: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship
“I awoke to the epiphany that I was the driver of my life and my problems were the consequences of my choices.”
― The Millionaire Fastlane
― The Millionaire Fastlane
“The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.
~ Dresden James, Author”
― UNSCRIPTED: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship
~ Dresden James, Author”
― UNSCRIPTED: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship
“When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.”
― UNSCRIPTED: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship
― UNSCRIPTED: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship
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