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Peter A. Vlachos puzzles me
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society
I have been puzzled over the speech of Peter A. Vlachos, prominent member of the Greek-American community in the USA and Chairman of the Investment Committee of Leadership 100.
Peter Austin Vlachos delivered a speech recently at the Annual graduation Ceremony of ALBA in Athens and came to Greece after an invitation of Total-Entertainment-21.
He was the Key Note Speaker talking to Graduates, young people ready to enter the labour market. He talked about skills and most important about ethics. As somebody with significant investing and charitable work, Peter A. Vlachos must know what he is talking about:
“Today there are doubts about the benefits of an unbridled free market. So I encourage you to invest your skills and talents in your success, and in living well, but above all, in exercising a healthy skepticism and good judgment, being true to yourself and to your values.“
Further he said:
There is currently so much cynicism, which may lead you to think it is the bad guys who prevail and prosper. When in actuality, it has been my experience that many of the most successful people, among them the pillars of the Greek Community in the United States, adhere to high ethical standards; standards that derive from family, schools mentors, religious and charitable institutions.
This is indeed a message full of hope unless you leave and work in Greece, I am afraid. Can you succeed by being true to yourself and your values if the world around you is falling apart? What are your chances to survive? What are your chances to get a job at all? These are questions I hear by many young people around. Jobless, of course!
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