I’ve put up some posts on motivation before the link below will take you to those posts.  But all of them have come from fictional characters, while their words ring true they don’t exist.  Prior posts include Gordon Gekko, Glengary Glenn Ross, 25th hour, Pulp Fiction and School for Scoundrels. http://twentythreesthoughts.wordpress.com/category/motivation/ But this time I’m …

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From one of my favorite movie characters of all time, Mr. Gordon Gekko: The richest one percent of this country owns half our country’s wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock …

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How many of you retards own self-help books? That’s your first problem…You can’t help yourself because yourself sucks. By helping yourself that means you are being helped by a complete asshole. So ignore yourself and do what I say instead. — School for Scoundrels Movie

There’s this passage I got memorized. Ezekiel 25:17. “The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is …

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(You need to know the full context of the movie to get the full power of this speech. I get chills everytime I hear it because I easily believe that could have been me saying this monologue. Also it might not be as powerful not living or going to NYC on a daily basis but …

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One of the greatest speeches of all time….Alec Baldwin’s character ‘Blake’ from Glengarry Glenn Ross (you may have seen the parody from SNL with Alec Baldwin and the Elf’s at Santa’s Workshop, good shit) Let me have your attention for a moment. ‘Cause you’re talkin‘ about what…you’re talkin‘ ’bout…bitchin‘ about that sale you shot, some …

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