“La patronne étant là, j'ai dû la baiser, mais c'était bien par politesse.”
Source: Oeuvres romanesques
“While the financial crisis destroyed careers and reputations, and left many more bruised and battered, it also left the survivors with a genuine sense of invulnerability at having made it back from the brink. Still missing in the current environment is a genuine sense of humility.”
Source: Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves
“These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California to New York, from New Jersey to Texas.
Wait—Texas? Wasn't Texas supposed to be thriving even as the rest of America suffered? Didn't its governor declare, during his re-election campaign, that 'we have billions in surplus'? Yes, it was, and yes, he did. But reality has now intruded, in the form of a deficit expected to run as high as $25 billion over the next two years.
And that reality has implications for the nation as a whole. For Texas is where the modern conservative theory of budgeting—the belief that you should never raise taxes under any circumstances, that you can always balance the budget by cutting wasteful spending—has been implemented most completely. If the theory can't make it there, it can't make it anywhere.”
“Our current monetary system is the reason why our planet is swimming in cheap, low-quality products, because businesses want to spend the least amount of money to create a product, which makes it low-quality, and businesses also make products that don’t last on purpose so they can make more money when the customer has to buy the same product again, and sometimes rebought an absurd amount of times. If money was taken out of the equation, only the people whose passion to make certain products would be making them, and they’d be the people who’d make the best products since it would be done out of passion instead of the want for money.”
Source: The Beasts of Success
“As investor Michael Batnick says, "some lessons have to be experienced before they can be understood." We are all victims, in different ways, to that truth.”
Source: The Psychology of Money By Morgan Housel, You Are a Badass at Making Money By Jen Sincero, Money: Know More, Make More, Give More By Rob Moore 3 Books Collection Set
“Everyone has their own unique experience with how the world works.”
Source: The Psychology of Money By Morgan Housel, You Are a Badass at Making Money By Jen Sincero, Money: Know More, Make More, Give More By Rob Moore 3 Books Collection Set
“People from different generations, raised by different parents who earned different incomes and held different values, in different parts of the world, born into different economies, experiencing different job markets with different incentives and different degress of luck, learn very different lessons.”
“Getting money is one thing.
Keeping it is another”
Source: The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
“Getting money requires taking risks, being optimistic, and putting yourself out there.
But keeping money require the opposite of taking risk. It requires humility, and fear that what you've made can be taken away from you just as fast. It requires frugality and an acceptance that at least some of what you've made is attributable to luck, so past success can't be relied upon to repeat indefinitely.”
Source: The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
“The highest form of wealth is the ability to wake up every morning and say, "I can do whatever I want today.”
Source: The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness