“I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.”
– Augustus Caesar
This is good advice. Whatever you do, and wherever you go, leave that place and the people in it in a better state then they were before you were there. When you do business, give back more value then you’re taking in and you’ll find the world will appreciate you for it and, in the long run, you will find more success, wealth an happiness by replacing bricks with marble then you will by taking the bricks and keeping the marble too. Give value and you will be sure to find value come back to you in abundance.
That is something I have found to be so true, and something I always do my best to live by.