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Link: http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article7080137.ece

I thought the following extract from an interview with Jordan Belfort (jailed Wall Street broker toruned motivational speaker) in a recent Times Magazine was very pertinent.

"The problem on Wall Street is this" he says, "You're not creating anything.  There's no satisfaction.  The only barometer you have is money.  And money has no meaning.  So what do you do?  You try to attach meaning to the money by buying possesions."  So, the journalist continues, Thats the catch.  If you want to make money, you have to train yourself to be obsessed with money.  Then life will begin to lose its meaning.

Solomon in Ecclesiastes observes that;

'For what has man for all his labour and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun?  For all his days are sorrowful, and his work burdensome: even in the night his heart takes no rest.  This also is vanity.'

'All the labour of man is for his mouth and yet the soul is not satisfied.'

'He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver; Nor he who loves abundance with increase.'