No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.
Interpretation
Success and wealth do not protect you from everyday problems.
This quote highlights the misconception that achieving great success and wealth provides immunity from the ordinary struggles of life. It serves as a reminder that regardless of one's accomplishments or financial status, everyone still faces common challenges and inconveniences, emphasizing the shared human experience.
In practice
During a motivational speech about the reality of success.
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.
-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.
The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero.
People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often.
No one can guarantee you a job other than satisfied customers. That's the only thing that works. Nothing creates work other than products and services you provide that create satisfied customers.
When I talk about a successful program, define that. It's not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
A lack of money is never, ever, ever a problem. A lack of money is merely a symptom of what is going on underneath.
When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.
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