...For the Love of Money In my last year on Wall Street my bonus was $3.6 million — and I was angry because it wasn’t big enough. I was 30 years old, had no children to raise, no debts to pay, no philanthropic goal in mind. I wanted more money for exactly the same reason an alcoholic needs another drink: I was addicted. Eight years earlier, I’d walked onto the trading floor at Credit Suisse First Boston to begin my summer internship. I already knew I wanted to be rich, but when I started out I had a different idea about what wealth meant. I’d come to Wall Street after reading in the book “Liar’s Poker” how Michael Lewis earned a $225,000 bonus after just two years of work on a trading floor. That seemed like a fortune. Every January and February, I think about that time, because these are the months when bonuses are decided and distributed, when fortunes are made. I’d learned about the importance of being rich from my dad. He was a modern-day Willy Loman, a salesman with huge dreams that never seemed to materialize. “Imagine what life will be like,” he’d say, “when I make a million dollars.” While he dreamed of selling a screenplay, in reality he sold kitchen cabinets. And not that well. We sometimes lived paycheck to paycheck off my mom’s nurse-practitioner salary. Dad believed money would solve all his problems. At 22, so did I. When I walked onto that trading floor for the first time and saw the glowing flat-screen TVs, high-tech computer monitors and phone...
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...by: Anonymous “The love of money is the root of all evil.” It’s true. It makes people do things that they never thought they’d do. It makes people betray and put down their friends Just so they can get the money in the end. The love of money is nothing like the love of men; It makes people covet things that don’t belong to them. It can blind people and be the only thing they see. It can make a man lie so endlessly. It can make you realize the following is true: Sometimes what you’re looking for is right in front of you. *** There once was a young woman named Isabella Goodman Who was admired by not one, but by two men. One was high-class and rich, and as dashing as could be, One was humble and poor, but “I love her,” to his sister said he. You see, the rich man named George did not love the girl. He wanted more money more than anything else in the world. But the poor man named Ben had a character pure and true; He loved her with all his heart and wanted her to love him too. So while Ben worked for days and days to buy her a ring, George tried to buy Bella’s love by buying her many nice things. Even though he had so much money of his own, George wanted even more for him and him alone. Isabella was blind to George’s evil intention; She was too busy being flattered by all his attention. When Ben saw George with Bella it truly broke his heart. Ben just wanted to marry her and never be apart. He saw through George’s masks of...
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...the matter. Love and money are two things totally different; one is an emotion and feeling while the other is material. I think love is the main ingredient that a person needs to feel self-satisfaction as well as it is the most wonderful gift we got from God to share it with our family and friends. Money is important in our life; however, we are not sure if we will have it forever and in this case, just feelings mainly love and the support of your closest people can help you deal with any difficulties you are experiencing. In the world, there are so many people who are poor but love each other; also, there are many rich people who are not happy with their partners because some of them just choose each other for economic interests. I agree that money is necessary to survive and get the basics in life. However, in rich cultures people can become more materialistic and lose touch with the important simple things such as relationships, sensibility and humility. Money combined with power can lead to corruption, which is very common in some parts of the world, so that can put in danger the democracy and the ability for society to have justice, fairness and equality. Love and money are essential in life, but we will have a better world if everyone has more love and peace to share rather than money. Furthermore, personally I find more important the love and support from my family and close friends to help me fulfill my life in a meaningful way. My experience of love is a deep...
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...| Money, Attitude, and Unethical Behavior | Business Research Methods | | | December 11, 2013 | This research paper focuses on the relationship between money, attitude, and unethical behavior. Comparing the data found in regards to gender and major according to a study by Dr. Chen and Dr. Tang. | Introduction Many believe that the success of a business is determined by they amount of money they generate on an annual basis. Because of this widespread belief, we often see a lack of morals, values, and ethics incorporated into the business. Many businesses feel as if there is no room for ethics in the business world and that the relationships built should focus solely on the generation of revenue. According to Merriam Webster dictionary, we can define ethics as, “the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation.” Every company has a code of ethics in order to determine the company’s culture and values. It also acts a driving force behind any decisions made by top executives. In market where there are so many profit-based businesses, often times we see the many difficulties in balancing the pursuit of profits while staying true to their code of ethics. The balance of ethical practice and profit maximization causes companies to face difficult decisions and many times businesses choose profit maximization. Business-to-Business and Business-to-Consumer transactions require frequent interaction. In every type of business transaction...
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...Unsurprisingly, all attempted affairs result in failure, this is because the affairs are built upon the want for money. With regard to money induced relationships, the novel Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald exceedingly demonstrates how, money brings out ones true feelings towards others. In the book the Great Gatsby characters become delusional to true meaning of love. This is because if they force themselves to love someone only...
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...stop, for a minute and Smile Why is everybody so serious! Acting so damn mysterious You got your shades on your eyes And your heels so high That you can't even have a good time. [Pre-chorus] Everybody look to their left (yeah) Everybody look to their right (ha) Can you feel that (yeah) We're paying with love tonight [Chorus] I t's not about the money, money, money We don't need your money, money, money We just wanna make the world dance, Forget about the Price Tag Ain't about the (uh) Cha-Ching Cha-Ching. Aint about the (yeah) Ba-Bling Ba-Bling Wanna make the world dance, Forget about the Price Tag. [Jessie J - Verse 2] We need to take it back in time, When music made us all UNITE! And it wasn't low blows and video hoes, Am I the only one gettin'... tired? Why is everybody so obsessed? Money can't buy us happiness Can we all slow down and enjoy right now Guarantee we'll be feeling Alright. [Pre-choru s] Everybody look to their left (yeah) Everybody look to their right (ha) Can you feel that (yeah) We're paying with love tonight [Chorus] I t's not about the money, money, money We don't need your money, money, money We just wanna make the world dance, Forget about the Price Tag Ain't about the (uh) Cha-Ching Cha-Ching. Aint about the (yeah) Ba-Bling Ba-Bling Wanna make the world dance, Forget about the Price Tag. [B.o.B] Yeah yeah well, keep the price tag and take the cash back just give me six strings and a half...
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...The Love of Money is the root of all kinds of Evil People do many evil things in order to get rich. (Biblical. Compare this with Idleness is the root of all evil.) Fred: I know I could make more money if I just knew the right things to invest in. Ellen: Don't worry so much about money. It's the root of all evil, after all. As the newspapers continued to report the dastardly things the wealthy young banker had done to become even wealthier, people shook their heads and remarked, "The love of money is the root of all evil." The Apostle Paul, in his first letter to his young disciple, Timothy, had this to say: “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs” (1 Timothy 6:10). Now this verse is often misquoted as saying, “Money is the root of all evil.” Notice how “money” is substituted for “love of money” and “the root of all evil” is substituted for “a root of all kinds of evil.” These changes, while subtle, have an enormous impact on the meaning of the verse. The misquoted version (“money is the root of all evil”) makes money and wealth the source (or root) of all evil in the world. This is clearly false. The Bible makes it quite clear that sin is the root of all evil in the world (Matthew 15:19;Romans 5:12;James 1:15). However, when we reflect upon the correct citation of this verse, we see that it is the love of money, not money itself, that is a source...
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...Do you think money is the way to find happiness? People often think that money can bring them joy in life.Money can't buy happiness but there are other things in life that will make you truly happy. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. The assumption that wealth makes happiness leads to many characters making drastic measures to find "happiness.” Many characters only care about money throughout the book, Daisy is one of them. She thought that lots of money would make her happy but in reality, it was really Gatsby that made her happy. Daisy loved Gatsby so much but he never had enough money, so once he left for the war she looked for someone who had money. She found Tom, and even though she never really loved Tom she still decided to marry him. Daisy wanted a good, expensive life, someone who could provide for her and give her all she needs and wants, Tom was the person who could do that. "Daisy marries and stays with Tom because of the...
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...Love a la Mode Certainly, the play can be seen as a dramatic presentation of varieties of love in the England of the year 1700. Central is the delicate handling of the love game as played by Mirabell and Millamant. They represent the ideal of the Restoration attitude, intense yet balanced, their love based on mutual esteem with no surrender of individuality. Contrasted with it are Mirabell's earlier and quite ambiguous love affair with Mrs. Fainall; the illicit love of Fainall and Mrs. Marwood, presumably passionate, but wholly without mutual trust; the spurious court young Witwoud pays to Millamant; the direct and somewhat coarse approach of Sir Wilfull; and, at the opposite extreme completely, the aging and undignified longings of Lady Wishfort, vain, unrealistic, over-eager, desperate, and a little pathetic. Love and Money Such an approach is closely related to that of love a la mode, although they are not identical. In the world whose way is presented here, love and money are values to be taken into account at all times. The sincerity of Mirabell's love does not make him lose sight of the importance of Millamant's fortune. Fainall marries for money to support an illicit love; apparently the thought of marrying Mrs. Marwood without adequate money (however "adequate" might be defined) is unthinkable. Money is Lady Wishfort's sole hold over her child and her ward. Even the marriage of the servants is built on a promise of a handsome sum of money. This is the world's way. Love...
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...“There are some things money just cannot buy” Unknown. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel based on the idea that money can buy a lot of things, but happiness isn't one of them. In the book Jay Gatsby has all the money he would ever need. He even throws these big, elaborate parties that nobody is really invited to but hundreds show up. Gatsby opens his home up for these strangers not because he likes partying, but because he hopes to win back his true love Daisy. Relationships break and the struggle continues in the chase for money. This book proves that money doesn't buy happiness by showing Gatsby’s struggles, Daisy’s love life issues, and Myrtle getting hit by a car while she chases Tom’s money. Gatsby’s character proves to be unhappy throughout the book. Even though he has money and anything he could ever want he can't be happy. This is because he has no love in his life, specifically Daisy. Jay has been throwing big, celebrity parties hoping for her to attend but when she finally does she did not enjoy her time there. Eventually Jay Gatsby Begins to fall for Daisy again and vice versa. They experience love, but when things get get hard with Daisy, she runs back to Tom. All Gatsby is left with is his money. In the end it leads to him being dead and sinking to the bottom...
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...his family's money he is left with nothing but his name. Amory goes in search of finding the meaning of himself. At first Amory follows the materialistic beliefs that helped him float along in life, but quickly realizes that the real world is much different from his adolescent life. In Amory’s adolescent life he relied on his good looks to gain the benefits that life had to offer. However, with maturity comes the truth of life, Amory soon discovers that his looks mean nothing of he has no wealth to back...
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...Austen’s Portrayal of Money, Marriage, and Happiness by Character Usage in Pride and Prejudice Throughout the novel Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen portrays her views on money, marriage, and happiness through the coupling of several characters she created. Austen uses the characters and their relationships to show what true love should really be like in her opinion. One of the ways she showcased marriage in the book was that marriage created love and happiness, as opposed to the idea that love and happiness were a direct result from getting married. I have chosen ten characters from the novel, and through their coupling, will portray Austen’s views on money, marriage, and happiness in the nineteenth century. The coupling of Elizabeth and Darcy is the kind of pairing that is common in present day society. They seemed to fall in love before the decision to marry was decided. Elizabeth defies the general views of what society considers right. She makes her decisions on marriage based on her feelings and not on status, money, or pedigree. This is portrayed in the novel when Mr. Collins proposes to Elizabeth and she does not accept because she does not love Collins. Unlike other couples, Elizabeth and Darcy's relationship is not based on money, status, or name despite Darcy’s social status. Instead, it is based solely upon their feelings for one another. Elizabeth perfectly describes Darcy's affection for her when she stated, "'...you were sick of civility, of deference, of officious...
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...com/0268-3946.htm JMP 21,5 RESEARCH NOTE Income, the love of money, pay comparison, and pay satisfaction 476 Received June 2005 Revised February 2006 Accepted February 2006 Race and gender as moderators Thomas Li-Ping Tang Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA Theresa Li-Na Tang Affinion Group, Brentwood, Tennessee, USA, and Beeta Yazmeen Homaifar Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, Denver, Colorado, USA Abstract Purpose – This study aims to test a model of pay satisfaction and argue that the income-pay satisfaction relationship depends on one’s love of money and how one compares. Design/methodology/approach – The paper investigates: a direct path (income ! total pay satisfaction); an indirect path (income ! the love of money ! pay equity comparison ! total pay satisfaction) using a structural equation model (SEM) based on 210 full-time employees; and the model across race and gender in multi-group analyses. Findings – The paper finds that for the whole sample, there was one significant path (pay equity comparison ! total pay satisfaction). Since African-Americans ($32,073.15) and women ($32,400.58) tended to have lower income than Caucasians ($37,180.73) and men ($38,287.97), respectively, income significantly increased the importance of the love of money for African-Americans and females, but not for Caucasians and males. The love of money to pay equity comparison path was not significant. Income...
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...equal to happiness was normal among the characters living in New York. In the 1920's, Americans base their worth on how much money they make, how grand their household-goods were, and the amount of elaborate parties they could hold at their extravagant homes. In the end, the amount of money someone possesses does not determine their morality, spirituality, or their personality. The love of wealth can cause corruption and disruption in people's hearts and this is shown through the behavior of Tom and Myrtle, Daisy's rejection of Gatsby, and Gatsby's plan to redeem Daisy's love. Tom and Mrytle are on two opposite ends of society, Tom is...
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...The Great Gatsby Essay On the outside, The Great Gatsby seems to be a story about a twisted love affair. Fitzgerald is showing the many changes happening during the 1920’s society, and how it affected the idea of the American dream. Fitzgerald shows the strive for the wealth, which defined the American dream in the 1920’s and which continues to defines as a desire for wealth and success today. In the book, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is showing the corruption of the American dream by throwing parties, making love and having money. After WWII, there was an economic boom which left people suddenly rich, and they were referred to as the “new money.” There quickly became a difference between the “new money” and the people who were previously wealthy. What used to “pursuit of happiness” is now the pursuit of money and greed. The “new money” people don’t like the “old money” people. Jay Gatsby throws parties throughout the summer to show of how much money he has. “There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer night.” ( ) This quote shows that Gatsby has a lot of money because he can afford to throw parties throughout the summer. Money is everything in the world today and it was a huge part in the world back in the 1920’s economy too. The Great Gatsby also symbolizes love throughout the story. There were love affairs between married couples and single people. The biggest affair out of all the characters was definitely Daisy and Gatsby. Jay Gatsby has the biggest...
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