"**We don’t envy businesspeople from the century before last. We don’t begrudge plants or animals. We don’t envy millionaires on the other side of the globe – just those on the other side of the city**. As a writer, I don’t envy musicians, managers or dentists, but other writers. As a CEO you envy other, bigger CEOs. As a supermodel you envy more successful supermodels. [[Aristotle]] knew this: ‘**Potters envy potters**.’ " --- **Tags** — [[quotes]], [[envy]], [[social-comparison-bias]], [[hedonic-treadmill]], **Source** — [[202308101525 — B — The Art of Thinking Clearly]]