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I had the capital but I did not have an idea. I knew the carriage business, and I knew the carriage-tire business. I had no hankering after the carriage business, for it had become one of keen competition in cheap models.
Men and Rubber
Harvey S. Firestone
This volatility makes us unhappy. Carol Graham, a researcher at the Brookings Institute, has identified what she calls the paradox of the happy peasant and the miserable millionaire—ambitious members of the middle class in fast-growing economies are actually less happy than poor people in more stable societies. One reason for the distress of the group Graham calls the “frustrated achievers,” she believes, is the uncertainty of their economic position. They worry that at any moment they could lose their jobs and savings and drop back down to the bottom.
Plutocrats
Chrystia Freeland
The biggest thing that unites each practice, though, is the idea that compassion is at the root of finding our way out of things.
You Grow From Your Edges
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