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Therefore, when you and your sisters were very young, I deliberately concealed the fact that I was well off. I instilled many values such as frugality and personal struggle in you because I know that the quickest way to harm people, and cause them to lose their source of happiness, is to give them money. It can make people corrupt, dependent, arrogant, and foolish; make you all into my beloved children with wealth, and foolishly make you all into one that is incompetent and only depends on the success of their parents.
The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son: Perspectives, Ideology, and Wisdom
J. D. Rockefeller
A company that could pay all its employees so straightforwardly would be enormously successful. Many employees would work harder if they could get paid for it. More importantly, such a company would attract people who wanted to work especially hard. It would crush its competitors.
Hackers & Painters - Big Ideas From the Computer Age
Paul Graham
Whenever an entrepreneur asks me to invest in his company, I ask him how much he intends to pay himself. A company does better the less it pays the CEO-that's one of the single clearest patterns I've noticed
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