For all the good in money, there is also a flip side. Money does not guarantee happiness, self-esteem, pride, achievement, or emotional intimacy. Money does not necessarily correlate with integrity and honor.
Money can be a creative tool, but when you become obsessed with it to the extent that you judge yourself and other people only by their portfolio value, sacrificing all spirit and sense of self, money ceases to be a source for good.
Many Wall Street professionals become quasi expert in taking other people’s financial inventory. They judge, evaluate, assesses other people’s worth, and value as a person, by the size of their portfolio. This type of thinking can only limit an individual’s scope, and ultimately his ability to be creative and effective with his clients, is managers, his firm, his employees and partners, and ultimately with himself. In fact, these types of people become so conditioned to value consumption and materialism above all else, they often do not realize how obsessive they have become. They will argue and deny their obsessive behavior, even as it is obvious. Money can make people think they have control and power over themselves and others, but often this is a delusion.