Comments on: Have You Mistakenly Identified Greed As Ambition? http://www.pfadvice.com/2008/11/26/have-you-mistakenly-identified-greed-as-ambition/ Bridging the gap between saving money and investing Sat, 18 May 2013 13:35:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Liz Shaw Baron http://www.pfadvice.com/2008/11/26/have-you-mistakenly-identified-greed-as-ambition/comment-page-1/#comment-530821 Liz Shaw Baron Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:37:19 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/?p=3407#comment-530821 i’m looking to contact John Cain and see if this is the same John Cain I went to Pratt Institute with. Please advise. Thank you.

]]> By: ThiNg http://www.pfadvice.com/2008/11/26/have-you-mistakenly-identified-greed-as-ambition/comment-page-1/#comment-483639 ThiNg Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:10:18 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/?p=3407#comment-483639 I always saw it as ambition being the desire to make oneself better and greed being the desire to make oneself better than others. You can be ambitious by measuring your goals against yourself. But it is all too easy to be greedy and measure yourself against others. The others can be your friends, neighbours, the ‘perceived normal’ person, etc.

Take a long hard look at who you are. Figure out what you are bad at (are you a good parent, good spouse, good neighbour) and then make yourself better at it. That’s ambition, the desire to be better than you are now.

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