“Ask them about their sex lives or their drinking habits or the times they beat up on Granny and they may dodge around a little but eventually they'll tell you all about it - they're dying to tell. Get to the money question, though, and they start acting like you just tore off all their clothes in public. In some way, money is the cover we use for the most intimate parts of ourselves.”
Source: Crazy Eights
“our foundation is rocky
because we made a home
in each other’s skin.
the damage is beginning
to show.”
Source: The Chaos of Longing
“God didn’t send Jesus to die so we could spend our whole lives paying debts He already canceled.”
Source: God Didn’t Send Jesus to Die So We Could Spend Our Whole Lives Paying Debts
“Neither a borrower or a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,”
Source: Hamlet
“Don’t rely on market news flow to justify action. Trades should stand on their own merits.”
Source: Fast Forward Investing: How to Profit from AI, Driverless Vehicles, Gene Editing, Robotics, and Other Technologies Reshaping Our Lives
“The lesson is straightforward. Those who understand the money problem and act on it will be rewarded. Those who dismiss it will watch their purchasing power quietly disappear.”
Source: The Money Problem: And How to Be on the Right Side of What's Coming
“Why is it necessary for your currency to lose purchasing power in order for society to function? Wouldn't the opposite be true?”
Source: The Money Problem: And How to Be on the Right Side of What's Coming
“The problem is that finance is useless. The solution is to try and do something useful with the only thing it produces: the money it makes for the winners… Meaning has to be found in what they subsequently do with the money they have made. For many of them, the most valuable thing they can do with their riches is establish a reputation outside the world of finance which matches the image they have in their own heads. It is for this reason that so many people in finance, after achieving their fortune, become obsessed with wanting to be the thing they know themselves to be: a philosopher king.”
“Money has limits. Power has boundaries. Both eventually encounter resistance. Influence, however, scales quietly. It moves through ideas, habits, language, technology, and stories. Once embedded, it doesn’t need to be enforced. It simply becomes "how things are done.”
Source: Learn to Love the Roller Coaster: Stories of Change, Resilience, and the Future to Come
“Man is of much value beyond measure.”