Law of the Alibi: If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire. – Author Unknown
I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal. – Jim Carrey
In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted. – Ray Dalio