En la actualidad, los médicos enfrentan problemas económicos que yo no le desearía ni a mis peores enemigos: las compañías de seguros se están apoderando de sus negocios, la industria de la salud está manipulada, el gobierno interviene y, además, abundan las demandas por negligencia. Hoy en día los niños quieren convertirse en atletas famosos, en estrellas de cine o de rock, en reinas de belleza o directores de grandes empresas, porque esas son las profesiones que proveen fama, dinero y prestigio. Es por esto que cuesta tanto trabajo mantener motivados a los chicos en las escuelas.

I learned that kids are like actors on a set: They want to know that their director gives a shit, has an actual plan and, just maybe, knows what he’s doing. In other words, they want leadership. And you can’t attempt to lead by being all things to all people or a slave to PC society

Millennials, by contrast, have internalized the need to find employment that reflects well on their parents (steady, decently paying, recognizable as a “good job”) that’s also impressive to their peers (at a “cool” company) and fulfills what they’ve been told has been the end goal of all that childhood optimization: doing work you’re passionate about, which will naturally lead to other “better life outcomes.

Kids don't care about rock and roll as much as they used to, as the other generations have. It's already turned into nothing but a fashion statement and an identity for kids to use as a tool for them to fuck and have a social life.

One thing should be clear to you now. Money-making is aggression. That's the whole thing. The functionalistic explanation is the only one. People come to the market to kill. They say, 'I'm going to make a killing.' It's not accidental. Only they haven't got the genuine courage to kill, and they erect a symbol of it. The money. They make a killing by fantasy.

Growing into an environment in which everyone else seems bigger and more powerful, every child seeks to gain what they need by the easiest route.

Money's easy to make if it's money you want. But with few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

Cuando aún se es muy joven, hay que pensar qué es lo que más nos agrada y luego organizar nuestra vida imaginando la forma de ganar dinero con esa actividad.

Rich kids are more confident that they can influence government, and they are largely right about that.14 Not surprisingly, poor kids are less likely to try.

Too many people today on Wall Street go for the quick
buck at the expense of their reputation and client satisfaction, the
rationale being “let’s make the money while we can and retire early
in the sun.” For me, this is not a sprint but a marathon, besides the
fact that, in my definition, overnight success is 15 years. Anyone who
does not understand the basic tenets of this philosophy is not someone
I can or will do business with.

The most important skill for getting rich is becoming a perpetual learner. You have to know how to learn anything you want to learn. The old model of making money is going to school for four years, getting your degree, and working as a professional for thirty years. But things change fast now. Now, you have to come up to speed on a new profession within nine months, and it’s obsolete four years later. But within those three productive years, you can get very wealthy.

Most of the time, the person you have to become to make money is a high-anxiety, high-stress, hard-working, competitive person. When you have done that for twenty, thirty, forty, fifty years, and you suddenly make money, you can’t turn it off. You’ve trained yourself to be a high-anxiety person. Then, you have to learn how to be happy.

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.