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How Much is Enough? Someday you will retire. Will a million dollars be enough? When J.P. Morgan died in 1914, his peers were surprised that his estate totaled "only" $68 million ($802 million in 1989 dollars). The Worth of the Individual For what are you exchanging your life? If it is not for people then you are paying too high a price. When we give ourselves to invest in other people, then we are investing for eternity, but if we give our lives for an organization, a job, an institution, a cause, or a program, then we are only focusing on the temporal. I have always loved my job, my church, and many fine organizations with which I have served. But, when I put the success of the cause or activity above people, then I am misguided. Under Promise, Over Deliver As I sat at lunch with the young insurance executive, he raised a question. He had an exclusive contract with an insurance company to sell only their products, but his agents wanted to sell a competitive product as well. My friend wanted to know if it would be morally right to do this through another company in which he had a vested interest.