Sublime

every dollar you earn a “certificate of appreciation” from your customers.

there is one group of people that is truly useful to everyone else—those people eager to earn more money.

BE PROUD OF AND LET PEOPLE KNOW WHAT YOU DO This book’s second commandment could be summarized thus: Make lots of new friends, try to help them, and make sure that they all know how you could help them and that you are eager to do so.

“Always look for the helpers,” he explained to his viewers who were scared or disillusioned by the news. “There’s always someone who is trying to help. . . . The world is full of doctors and nurses, police and firemen, volunteers, neighbors and friends who are ready to jump in to help when things go wrong.”

creator of the Smithsonian Museum’s “Programs in Black Culture,” and one of the leading authorities on Black American music culture,

In God’s economy, everyone benefits by everyone contributing.