Auto-generated transcript:We come to Rockefeller's letters and advice to his son, Principle 4.
It's a very interesting one.
He says, money is fire.
Use it or get burnt.
And the commentator says that Rockefeller never worshipped money.
He compared it to fire.
He said it can warm your home or burn it down.
It can feed the hungry or destroy the greedy.
He donated 500 million and secured his legacy.
The interesting thing to understand,
as far as money is concerned,
is that we live in an environment
where we are taught to define ourselves
in terms of money,
to actually chase money,
because we are told that money is what runs the world
and therefore your net worth defines you
and so and so's net worth is this much
and net worth is that much.
So effectively you're saying that a person is worth
the value of his or her possessions.
Now just think about that.
Just the thought that your worth,
who you are, what you are,
your worth is to be measured,
or that's what they want you to do,
in terms of how many things you have.
So whether those are shares in a company
or whether they are your houses or cars or whatever,
this is your worth.
And the whole idea of this is because
we live in an environment where
the ruling principle is commercialism.
The religion is commercialism.
And the temples of that religion are the shopping malls,
online or online.
So you know you buy things with money,
you don't say if somebody hasn't bought,
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and then goats come to you.
And things like that.
Actually I don't think I've done all that,
only bought things for myself.
And actually I do three things,
is to encourage you to buy more.
It's to encourage you to buy more,
it's to encourage you to buy without thinking
because I can always return it.
While the people who are selling,
they make money as long as they can register a sale.
So it doesn't matter how long the person uses that thing
which he bought, doesn't matter.
As long as he can register a sale,
he's fine with that.
So therefore, it's something that,
you know,
therefore the money is what we are chasing.
The fact of life is that money is the result
of quality effort.
So if you produce quality, money will follow.
But if you chase money, then money is like a shadow.
The more you chase it,
the more it goes away from you.
If the sun is behind you and your shadow is in front of you,
then if you are running behind that shadow,
you will never catch it because as you run,
the shadow is in front of you.
It's always in front of you.
You can never catch the shadow.
But if you turn around and you face the sun,
then the shadow is chasing you.
It's not the other way around, right?
The shadow is chasing you.
So that's how it is.
If you are,
if you are chasing the sun,
if you are chasing quality,
if you are chasing quality,
then you find that money will come to you.
You don't have to worry about money.
But if you chase money,
then quality will disappear.
Because one of the first things that people do
when they are chasing money is
they are tempted to,
I'm not saying everybody does it,
but most people do it.
They are tempted to sacrifice quality
in order to make money.
And of course,
they will have all kinds of reasons
they are doing it.
They will make excuses and so on and so forth.
But they will try to sacrifice quality
and they will try to,
you know,
take shortcuts
in order to make money.
This is how the whole thing functions.
People are willing to sell their honor
because to make money,
one of the ways of making money,
a dishonorable, horrible way
is to take bribes.
People will do that.
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tries to tempt them and say
that one of the ways of making money
is to take bribes.
One of the ways to make money
is to get into debt.
That's how they send you credit cards
free in the mail
and they sign you on for nothing
because then you start buying.
You are in their clutches.
As soon as you start buying,
then of course you have to repay