Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life

“I long to accomplish a great and noble task,” the ever-inspiring Helen Keller once wrote,“but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.” Woodrow Wilson said it perhaps

“you can’t take them with you”), what is it that does matter? What are the characteristics by which we should measure our lives? Surely the nineteenth-century German philosopher Goethe identified one of them: boldness. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in

While we drown in innovation, we starve for introspection, the one quality that might allow us to truly see where we have been, where we are going, and what we must do to earn the trust of the investors.

Growth must be organic, rather than forced.

“Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.”

But it can be measured in our contributions to building a better world, in helping our fellow man, and in raising children who themselves become loving human beings and good citizens. Success, in short, can be measured not in what we attain for ourselves, but in what we contribute to our society.

Too Much Counting, Not Enough Trust

Too Much Management, Not Enough Leadership

Commitment and boldness—these are among the things that truly matter, the things by which we can measure our lives, the things that help turn providence in our favor. Their reach goes far beyond how we earn our living, for never forget that none of us lives by bread alone.