Quotes and cool shit to read for the last post

"Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others." - Wall Street (film)

I'll touch on this one again in a later post, cause it's not totally accurate - true creation in finance does exists and benefits all the stakeholders involved, but the general idea is correct, and true financial creation clearly hasn't been around much lately.

Sam Sheridan has this to say at the end of his book "A Fighter's Heart:"

"I do not believe that men were meant for games, that that is their highest purpose. Work is nobler than play. I believe that men were meant for work, that their highest calling is to build, not destroy or even protect. Learning to fight, trying to embody the virtues of the hunter and the warrior - these things are useful and important, even essential. But don't be content with being a warrior, be a builder as well. Make something. The true calling of a man, real manhood, is about creation, not destruction, and everyone secretly knows it."

"As artists and professionals it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture. We overthrow the programming of advertising, movies, video games, magazines, TV, and MTV by which we have been hypnotized from the cradle. We unplug ourselves from the grid by recognizing that we will never cure our restlessness by contributing our disposable income to the bottom line of Bullshit, Inc., but only by doing our work." - Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

Laborem Excercens - Catholic assertion that our work likens us to god in that we've earned our daily bread to live off of, and that we create stuff

Objectivism - kinda the same, that we actually are our gods though, and the world and resources in it exists for us to manipulate and improve

Howard Roark's speech at the end of The Fountainhead

You are what you do - Ryan Clark Holiday; and 90% of everything else hes written.

Success and Motivation - Mark Cuban