COMPASSION

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live thoughtlessly and begins to devote himself to his life
with reverence in order to give it true value.
— Albert Schweitzer

4/28/2012

Generosity Quotes and a Talk about How to Buy Love

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. – W. Clement Stone 

  "God doesn't pour blessings into pots, but into pipes; not into reservoirs but into rivers that let it flow"

 “O Thou who has given us so much, mercifully grant us one thing more -- a grateful heart.” (G. Herbert)






Michael I. Norton is an Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit and Marvin Bower Fellow at the Harvard Business School. He holds a B.A. in Psychology and English from Williams and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Princeton. Prior to joining HBS, Professor Norton was a Fellow at the MIT Media Lab and MIT’s Sloan School of Management. His work has been published in a number of leading academic journals, including Science, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, and the Annual Review of Psychology, and has been covered in media outlets such as the Economist, the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.

His research has twice been featured in the New York Times Magazine Year in Ideas issue, in 2007 (Ambiguity Promotes Liking) and 2009 (The Counterfeit Self). His “The IKEA Effect: When Labor Leads to Love” was featured in Harvard Business Review‘s Breakthrough Ideas for 2009.

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Quotes by Michael Norton

“The specific way that you spend on other people isn't nearly as important as the fact that you spend on other people.”


“Spending on other people has a bigger return for you than spending on yourself.

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