| The Diamond Cutter
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| | between spirituality and success in
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| | business. Successful business people have
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| Geshe Michael Roach is a Princeton
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| | the resources to do more good in the
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| graduate and a Buddhist monk. After
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| | world than those people without the same
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| graduation, he spent seven years studying
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| | resources do. In addition, the very
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| the wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism. At the
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| | people who are attracted to business are
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| suggestion of his teacher, he joined a
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| fledgling diamond business in New York to
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| | grasp and carry out the deeper practices
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| test his ideals in real life. He stayed
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| | of the spirit.
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| with the business as a member of the core
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| | Money should be made honestly and with
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| management team for seventeen years.
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| | absolute integrity. How we make money
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| The company grew from a start-up with two
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| | matters more than anything else does. It
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| owners and two employees to $100 million
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| | determines our ability to keep making
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| in sales and five hundred employees in
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| | money as nobody can indefinitely run a
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| offices around the world. The Diamond
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| Cutter: The Buddha on Strategies for
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| Managing Your Business and Your Life
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| | our ability to enjoy the money we make.
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| tells the story of how Geshe Michael
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| | Nothing is good or bad in and of itself;
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| Roach built the diamond division of this
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| | everything has a hidden potential. This
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| company, using principles culled from
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| | is what the Buddhists call emptiness.
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| ancient Tibetan Buddhism as the driving
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| | What is bad news for you may be good news
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| force behind his decision making.
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| | for someone else, and vice versa. We must
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| Drawing on lessons he learned in the
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| | not leap to conclusions about events, but
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| diamond business and years in Buddhist
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| | must stop to consider what potential they
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| monasteries, Roach shows how taking care
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| | really have for us. Even competitors can
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| of others is the ultimate path to taking
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| | be seen as fairy godmothers challenging
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| care of oneself, even--especially--in
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| | us to find the correct path to greater
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| business. As he puts it, you have to
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| | accomplishment. It is a matter of
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| engage in "mental gardening," which means
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| | perception. With the right state of mind,
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| doing certain practical things that will
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| | we can turn our problems into
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| form new habits that will create an ideal
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| | opportunities.
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| reality for you. If this sounds a little
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| | We should look ahead to the inevitable
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| outrageous, his very precise instructions
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| | end of our days in business, and put
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| are down to earth and address numerous
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| | ourselves in a position where we can
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| specific issues common to the business
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| | honestly say our years in business had
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| management world. Through this practice,
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| | some meaning. The idea here is to
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| you will become a considerate, generous,
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| | anticipate our future, and move in a
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| introspective, creative person of immense
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| | direction that will allow us to look back
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| integrity, and that will be the key to
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| | on our past with total joy and
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| your wealth... A
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| | satisfaction.
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| Some of the many insights in The Diamond
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| | The Diamond Cutter: The Buddha on
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| Cutter are as follows:
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| | Strategies for Managing Your Business and
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| A business should be successful; it
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| | Your Life by Geshe Michael Roach (Author)
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| should make money. There is no conflict
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| | List Price: $23.
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