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I Am Convinced That Material Things Can Contribute A Lot To Making One's Life Pleasant, But, Basically, If You Do Not Have Very Good Friends And Relatives Who Matter To You, Life Will Be Really Empty And Sad And Material Things Cease To Be Important.

One Cannot Expect To Coast Along And Rise Automatically To The Top, No Matter What Friends You May Have In The Company. There May Have Been A Time When, In Large Corporations, A Person Could Rise Simply Because He Had A Stock Interest Or Because He Had Friends In Top Management. That's Not True Today. Success In Business Requires Training And Discipline And Hard Work. But If You're Not Frightened By These Things, The Opportunities Are Just As Great Today As They Ever Were.

This Present Window Of Opportunity, During Which A Truly Peaceful And Interdependent World Order Might Be Built, Will Not Be Open For Too Long - We Are On The Verge Of A Global Transformation. All We Need Is The Right Major Crisis And The Nations Will Accept The New World Order.

I Am A Passionate Traveler, And From The Time I Was A Child, Travel Formed Me As Much As My Formal Education. In Order To Appreciate Cultures Of Another Nation, One Needs To Go There, Know The People And Mingle With The Culture Of That Country. One Way To Do That, If One Is Lucky Enough, Is To Buy Things From Those Cultures.

As Children We Recognized That We Belonged To An Unusual, Even Exceptional, Family, But The Effect Was Different On Each Of Us.