Posted on 04/27/2011 7:21:27 PM PDT by LouAvul
That was a statement made by a student in one of my business classes. A lot of those students think they're going to get a business degree and work for a company that doesn't have profit as it's reason for being.
Yeah. Put, "Success isn't defined by money" on your resume and get back to me as to how far it gets you.
I hate left wing academia. Peta Greenpeace enviro one world idiots.
It isn’t. It is, though, a handy metric for judging how useful that which you produce is to others.
Success in life has little to do with money. (Don't roll your eyes, I'm agnostic)
Candidate One answer: Eight.
Boss to candidate Two: What's four plus four?
Candidate Two answer: Whatever you want it to be.
Boss to Candidate Two: You're hired!
You have my deepest sympathy, having been there. Sometimes getting concepts into the little snowflakes skulls requires a very large hammer.
Or failure - that also tends to work.
my son was fond of saying he didn't care about money....he put no thought into a career or what college classes he should take...subsequently, he is now going back for a second major just so he can actually find work...his communications degree didn't get him very far.....
you try to tell them but they just don't listen first time around...
Bump for later
Success in life has little to do with money.
That I can roll with. A man or woman who defines themselves by their money is a monkey.
“Greed will save the USA!”
That depends on your definition of success.
Success in business = make a good profit.
Success in marriage = give 100%, spouse does the same.
Success in parenting = teach your kids character, good worth ethic, etc.
You can have money without success, and you can have success without money.
That depends on your definition of success.
Success in business = make a good profit.
Success in marriage = give 100%, spouse does the same.
Success in parenting = teach your kids character, good work ethic, etc.
You can have money without success, and you can have success without money.
Lots of people, maybe most people, don’t define success by money. On the other hand organizations to exist must cover their costs.
Did you get the sense this student failed to understand that organizations must cover their costs to exist?
“Success in life has little to do with money.”
I’m 64. I worked for a profit making company and am retired nicely. I have a lot of friends at a like age who are now trying to live on their good feelings from having worked for a feel-good enterprise. You might want to stock up on blankets for the outdoor air in the park.
Lou,
you should really start your own blog to record your stream of consciousness writings, you’ve been posting stream of conscious stuff like this thread on FR for years, some of it good, some bad, a few incredible and a few horrible.
In the end though, lot of this stuff is bar room or social club conversation, it’s not real interesting to the 10,000 people who have to scroll through the Articles tab each day.
You’re back in Uni after many years, congrats on that, remember you are there for just your own education, don’t be afraid to choice your timing carefully and let another student have it in front of the class when they start tangents into the obtuse.
Keep in mind that if you go into tangents in the other direction in those calsses you could have other people who are paying for class time on their own dime thinking you’re wasting their time too.
But if they expect to succeed in the business world, they'd better realize businesses are in the business of making money. Only an idiot, including many freepers, would think otherwise.
LOL! Now there’s a face-palm moment!
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