You can never get enough of what you don't really need
Dennis Kozlowski may have proved that. So how much DO you really need? Hundreds of millions of dollars in salary and bonuses was not enough. There was still a $6,000 gold-thread shower curtain out there. I once heard a missionary answer the question, what’s the biggest problem in your village? He said, materialism! and had to explain; the ones who have two chickens just have to have three, and the ones with a thatch roof just have to have a tin one. A wise man warned that putting your hope in wealth is arrogance, and that if you’re eager for money you can pierce yourself with many griefs:
Kozlowski, 58, was led out of the courtroom in handcuffs as his wife quietly sobbed from a bench three rows back.
But it doesn't have to end that way.
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