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it’s not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people
out of work.

—Philip Green, British businessman and the chairman of Arcadia Group

My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not
making money. Just because the money’s come, nothing’s changed.

—Nick D’Aloisio, English computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur

Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it’s
keeping it.

—John McAfee, software entrepreneur

I always thought that I would spend the first half of my life making money so I
can spend the second half of my life giving it all away. And one of the defining
moments of my life was when I realized that I could do both at the same time
with TOMS.

—Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS shoes, author, and philanthropist (from “Changing the World
One Step at a Time,” CNN.com, September 26, 2008)

The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed; you
must have a larger ambition.

—John D. Rockefeller, industrialist, cofounder of Standard Oil Co., and philanthropist

To do all the talking and not be willing to listen is a form of greed.

—Democritus, ancient Greek philosopher