What enough entails? YouTube pump-and-dump scheme by Bollywood actor Arshad Warsi who has a net worth of $40 million dollars is another reminder....

What enough entails? YouTube pump-and-dump scheme by Bollywood actor Arshad Warsi who has a net worth of $40 million dollars is another reminder....

“But I have something he will never have — ENOUGH.”

YouTube pump-and-dump scheme by Bollywood actor Arshad Warsi who has a net worth of $40 million dollars is another reminder of not having a sense of what is "enough".

Arshad Warsi, by age 14, he was orphaned and struggled for a living. made his fame in time, has been in several box office successes.

Mr. Rajat Gupta — Founder of ISB Hyderabad, once a member of the financial elite as the head of McKinsey, a board member of Goldman Sachs and an adviser to Bill Gates — had been convicted of securities fraud in 2012 as part of Mr. Rajaratnam’s insider-trading ring. He was sentenced to two years in prison.

The case against Mr. Gupta revolved around the day in the fall of 2008 when Warren Buffett agreed to make a crucial investment in Goldman Sachs, bolstering public confidence in the firm when such confidence was in dangerously short supply.

Sixteen seconds after Goldman’s board finished discussing Mr. Buffett’s soon-to-be-announced investment, Mr. Gupta called Mr. Rajaratnam. Mr. Rajaratnam then started buying Goldman shares. Explaining the well-timed purchases later in a taped phone call, he said he had heard “something good might happen to Goldman.”

From being born into a middle-class family in Kolkata to reaching the stellar heights of the highly competitive world of Corporate America, the story of Indian American Rajat Gupta is nothing short of legendary.

With a career graph that could make the best burn with envy, Gupta, who boasts of posts like head of consultancy giant McKinsey, board seats at Goldman Sachs and Procter and Gamble and special adviser to the United Nations, among other things, has done what not many could have done in his 63 years of life.

A US court held Gupta guilty of providing insider information to Galleon hedge fund founder and friend Raj Rajaratnam, in one of America's biggest insider trading cases.

Born in Maniktala in Kolkata, son of a freedom fighter-turned-journalist father and a school teacher mother, Gupta was orphaned at the age of 18.

Joseph Heller (famous writer) was once asked by a friend during a party given by a hedge fund manager.

"Joe, how does it make you feel to know that our host only yesterday may have made more money than your novel ‘Catch-22’ has earned in its entire history?”

And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have. The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”

Many of the wealthiest and most powerful people, there seems to be no limit today on what enough entails.  

Lesson from 'The Psychology of Money' by Kurt Vonnegut

Reputation is invaluable, freedom and independence are invaluable, family and friends are invaluable, happiness is invaluable, happiness is invaluable. Your best shot at keeping these things is knowing when it’s time to stop taking risks that might harm them, knowing when you have enough.

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