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Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money
If you really grew, then you really changed.
from Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money by Rabbi Daniel Lapin
Philip Powis added 2mo ago
For 25 hours each week, Jews are required to put aside all work related objects and activities. They are to abstain from activating any form of technological machinery, such as cars, televisions, computers, and phones. In fact, all devices that assist Jews in reaching out of themselves into the outer world and impacting it are off limits.
from Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money by Rabbi Daniel Lapin
Philip Powis added 2mo ago
Aim for predictability in your professional performance. It greatly enhances your value to others. Humans all prefer the familiar to the alien. One reason for the stunning success of the franchise concept during the second half of the twentieth century was that it offered the familiar and the predictable.
from Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money by Rabbi Daniel Lapin
Philip Powis added 2mo ago
“Take out a dollar bill and look at it,” he said. “Now pat yourself on your back because you are looking at a certificate of performance. If you did not rob or steal from anyone to obtain that dollar, if you neither defrauded anyone nor persuaded your government to seize it from a fellow citizen and give it to you, then you could only have obtained
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Philip Powis added 2mo ago
Well, then, if you are really somebody rather impressive, how do you avoid becoming, well, . . . arrogant about it all? By recognizing how little credit you really deserve for your triumphs and achievements. You had the good fortune to be born and raised in a country that offered not only physical survival but also endless opportunity. Even the dis
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Philip Powis added 2mo ago
For better or worse, humans are holistic. Even the human body does best when its spiritual and physical sides are synchronized.
from Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money by Rabbi Daniel Lapin
Philip Powis added 2mo ago
Turning over a new leaf and making a fresh start is enormously liberating. It allows one to recover one’s morally driven self restraint that might otherwise have eroded beyond the point of usefulness.
from Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money by Rabbi Daniel Lapin
Philip Powis added 2mo ago
YOUR PATH TO PROSPERITY
from Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money by Rabbi Daniel Lapin
Philip Powis added 2mo ago
One of the first questions that new acquaintances ask one another is “What do you do?” or “What field are you in?” You need to be able to answer that question with no more than about 20 seconds of description. What is more, you need to answer that question in a way that sounds absolutely fascinating and that almost compels your interlocutor to ask
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