Social standing and reptuation has always mattered, but now it 's happening on a global basis.

The challenge of our generation, whether it's young lawyers, young investment bankers, is to make capitalism work for people not just around the corner, but for people all around the world.

When you go to a Japense wedding, make sure that you tie the ribbon on the present tightly because if you don't, you may imply that you don't think the marriage will last.

It is important to understand that the most important currency is social debt. Doing things for others. In order to get, you have to give.

All organisms rely on exchange. They form symbiotic partnerships in order to obtain the energy that they need to survive. Energy is the currency of nature.

Money numbs your senses. People who touched paper money and then placed their hands in hot burning water didn't feel as much pain as those who hadn't touched money.

On a biological level, the brain registers money as something valuable - even a dollar bill which has no intrinsic value, it's just paper.

Money is really like blood. You need it to live but it isn't the point of life.

Just the idea of making money can increase your skin conductancy, meaning there's a current of excitement.

Researchers have compared brain scans of those people who are making money to those high on cocaine and found that them to be almost identical. Money has a biological and psychological effect on us.

The oldest and most important currency is debt.

Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot.

An excellence mind pursues perfecting, not perfection.

Kisses are a shared solitude.

Patriotism is a villain's last refuge.

In politics you learn to always smile.

A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we are too proud or too afraid to unbend.

Be aware of your inner voice and follow it, even though most of the time it will tell you the most uncomfortable path to choose.

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

Every person has a zakaat (to pay) and the zakaat of the body is fasting.

Push on, friend. You're just one exciting step from the banquet hall of life.