“The only place people find fulfillment is within themselves. And too often, that's the last place they look.”

—  Robert Rubin , book In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington

"In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington" https://www.google.com/books/edition/In_an_Uncertain_World/oUz_orYBwPcC?hl=en&gbpv=0, p. 64

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