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“Money numbs your senses. People who touched paper money and then placed their hands in hot burning water didn't feel as much pain as those who hadn't touched money.”

People Feels Hands Pain Water Paper Hot Senses Burning Touched Paper Money

Author:Kabir Sehgal

“Just the idea of making money can increase your skin conductancy, meaning there's a current of excitement.”

Ideas Skins Increase Currents Making Money Excitement

Author:Kabir Sehgal

“Researchers have compared brain scans of those people who are making money to those high on cocaine and found that them to be almost identical. Money has a biological and psychological effect on us.”

People Found Brain Effects Psychological Making Money Identical Cocaine Researchers

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“The oldest and most important currency is debt.”

Important Debt Currency

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“When you go to a Japense wedding, make sure that you tie the ribbon on the present tightly because if you don't, you may imply that you don't think the marriage will last.”

Ifs Thinking May Lasts Ties Ribbons

Author:Kabir Sehgal

“Reputation will become an even more important currency in the future.”

Important Reputation Currency

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“Social standing and reptuation has always mattered, but now it 's happening on a global basis.”

Social Happenings Standing Bases

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“The challenge of our generation, whether it's young lawyers, young investment bankers, is to make capitalism work for people not just around the corner, but for people all around the world.”

People World Young Challenges Generations Capitalism Investment Corners Lawyer Around The World Bankers Our Generation Around The Corner

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“I think the money for the solutions for global poverty is on Wall Street. Wall Street allocates capital. And we need to get capital to the ideas that are successful, whether it's microfinance, whether it's through financial literacy programs, Wall Street can be the engine that makes capital get to the people who need it.”

People Thinking Needs Ideas Poverty Successful Streets Wall Solutions Program Financial Engines Literacy Financial Literacy Global Poverty Microfinance

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“We need to have financial literacy in America, not just complaining about obstructionism. We need solutions. And I think the solutions are using high finance to make capitalism work for people around the world.”

People Thinking World Needs America Solutions Capitalism Financial Complaining Finance Around The World Literacy Financial Literacy

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“After Hurricane Katrina, I wanted to go back to New Orleans to help musicians return to the city. But Andrew Young advised me, "If you want to help people, go work at an investment bank." His contrarian advice opened my eyes to the importance of capital. "Learn how to make some money before you give it away." I learned that you can bring about good in the world especially if you have a paycheck.”

People Ifs World Want Giving Helping Eye Wanted Young Cities Advice Return Musician Importance Investment New Orleans Hurricanes Andrew Paychecks Katrina Hurricane Katrina Good In The World

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“It's ok to say I don't know. Realizing this earlier in my career would have put me more at ease.”

Knows Realizing Careers Ease

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“It's a Wonderful Life. This film illustrates that if you treat your customers with respect, they will recognize you and even help when you're most in need.”

Ifs Needs Helping Film Wonderful Treats Customers Wonderful Life It's A Wonderful Life

Author:Kabir Sehgal

“Albert Murray's The Omni-Americans is the most valuable non-business book because it discusses how you have to draw upon everyone's creativity. America is a mash-up of cultures and traditions, and great businesses know how to tap the strengths of all their employees, whatever their background may be.”

Knows May Book America Culture Creativity Know How Draws Tradition Valuable Backgrounds Employee Great Business Mash Up Cultures And Traditions

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“"Begin with where you are." Everyone is looking to get ahead, but you get ahead by doing well at the things that are immediately in front of you.Start with the people around you, learn from them, and invest in them.”

People Wells Fronts Where You Are Get Ahead

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“Look at Google. They are re-organizing their businesses ,even renaming it with Alphabet, so they can be bolder and make strategic mistakes and then learn from them. But most companies aren't Google in that they make incremental changes and don't go for the moon shot.”

Looks Mistake Company Moon Shots Google Strategic Alphabet Incremental Change

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“One of the best ways to convince someone is to use a telling example, a story, a narrative. When Steve Jobs announced a new product, he told a story, exzlaining how a product would change the world as we know it. He turned Apple into a story whose challenges and adventures you want to hear about.”

Knows World Way Want Stories Use Jobs Challenges Example Adventure Products Best Way Narrative Apples Changing The World Convince New Products

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“Persistence. Change doesn't happen overnight. You have to stay with it. Rosa Parks helped start the Civil Rights movement in earnest in 1955. Then it was nearly a decade until the Civil Rights Act was passed.”

Happens Rights Movement Decades Civil Rights Persistence Parks Earnest Civil Rights Movement Rosa Civil Rights Act

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“Gone is the day where you work at a job for thirty years and retire. Millennials jump around and switch careers. I think it's important for CEOs to highlight career mobility within a company, so that employees don't get bored and continue to be stimulated.”

Thinking Years Important Jobs Company Careers Gone Bored Thirty Employee Retiring Ceo Thirty Years Highlights Mobility Millennials

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“Researchers have found that identical twins who have been separated for long periods of time actually invest in a similar manner. Biology really does affect how we spend money.”

Long Doe Has Beens Found Periods Biology Twins Identical Researchers Long Periods Of Time Identical Twin

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“On a biological level, the brain registers money as something valuable - even a dollar bill which has no intrinsic value, it's just paper.”

Values Levels Brain Paper Bills Dollars Valuable Register Intrinsic Value Dollar Bills

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“I don't think money can be understood through a lens limited to economics. And most books about money tell you the history of money, the instrument. But money is also an idea, one that we exchange to survive.”

Thinking Book Ideas Understood Economics Instruments Lenses

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“Money is really like blood. You need it to live but it isn't the point of life.”

Needs Blood

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“We are privileged that the dollar is the "currency of last resort" and the most important currency in the world. Global commodities are priced in dollars. Central banks in other countries hold great quantities of dollars. The dollar was the safe harbor, the port in the storm during the credit crisis.”

World Important Country Lasts Safe Crisis Dollars Credit Storm Quantity Currency Other Countries Commodity Privileged Resorts Harbors Port Central Banks Safe Harbor

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“We don't invest in financial literacy in a meaningful way. We should be teaching elementary school children how to balance a checkbook, how to do basic accounting, why it's important to pay your bills on time. First, education. Begin the learning process as early as possible, in elementary school. Second, encourage and support entrepreneurism. Third, policy. I know it's a priority of the US Treasury to augment financial inclusion and increase financial literacy.”

“All organisms rely on exchange. They form symbiotic partnerships in order to obtain the energy that they need to survive. Energy is the currency of nature.”

Needs Form Order Energy Rely Partnership Currency Organisms

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“In essence, money gives us the calories we need to survive. Over time, we became aware that exchange and cooperation increase our chances for survival. Eventually we create tools to facilitate trade. One of these tools is called money.”

Needs Giving Chance Survival Tools Essence Increase Trade Cooperation Calories Facilitate

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“For the last several decades, there was a prevailing belief among traditional economists that the markets were rational and self-correcting. Alan Greenspan advocated this view. But the 2008 financial crisis showed that this view is incorrect, and Greenspan eventually admitted as much.”

Self Lasts Belief Views Crisis Financial Decades Rational Traditional Economist Prevailing Correcting Financial Crisis

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“All decisions originate in the brain. So if we can better understand what's happening in the brain when we make investment decisions, maybe one day we'll be able to make more accurate financial forecasts - for a stock or even the entire market.”

Ifs Able Decision Brain One Day Happenings Investment Financial Accurate Forecasts Maybe One Day

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“In some cultures, when you give someone a gift, it's expected that they will pass it on. This seems like a peculiar practice in the West, but in many other societies, a gift has a spirit. If you try to possess the gift, you remove its spirit as a gift.”

Ifs Giving Trying Seems Spirit Culture Practice West Expected Remove Peculiar

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“People have tried to control other people by trapping them with debt. A loan can become a harmful and dangerous weapon.”

People Dangerous Weapons Debt Loan

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“Money is becoming increasingly plastic and digital. If there is a major disaster, let's say an asteroid strike, we'll go back to trading meats and furs. We won't need an abstraction, a dollar bill, but real tangible goods to survive.”

Ifs Needs Real Becoming Majors Bills Dollars Strikes Disaster Meat Digital Goods Plastic Abstraction Trading Tangible Fur Asteroids Dollar Bills

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“The New Testament states that man cannot serve two masters. He must choose one -God, and not the other - money. For what man chooses will reveal his heart.”

Men Heart Two States Masters Testament New Testament Two Masters

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“It is important to understand that the most important currency is social debt. Doing things for others. In order to get, you have to give.”

Giving Important Order Social Debt Currency Doing Things For Others

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