“The Christian who drinks cannot win his drinking companions to Christ. The girl who dances will never win her dancing boyfriend! You may think to gain favor and influence with the unsaved by joining with them in the lodge, or attending with them the movies, or by smoking or drinking or playing bridge with them, but you cannot! Worldliness means powerlessness! And that means that every Christian who sells out is guilty of the murder of the poor lost souls that go to Hell because he lost his influence.” ThinkingMayMeanSoulChristianGirlWinningLostChristPoorHellInfluenceDrinkGainsMurderSellsDancingDrinkingFavorsGuiltyBridgesSmokingCompanionJoiningAttendingPowerlessnessGo To HellLost SoulsLodgesWorldlinessPlaying Bridge Author:John R. Rice
“While it is probably a poor idea to own actively managed funds in general, it is truly a terrible idea to own them in taxable accounts... taxes are a drag on performance of up to 4 percentage points each year... many index funds allow your capital gains to grow largely undisturbed until you sell... For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.” YearsMeanIdeasGrowsPoorTerribleTaxesGainsPerformancesAccountsSellsSorryInvestingFundInvestorsDragPercentagesCapital GainsIndex FundsIndexing Author:William J. Bernstein
“Corporations don't create jobs, customers do. So when all the economic gains go to the top, as they're doing now, the vast majority of Americans don't have enough purchasing power to buy the things corporations want to sell - which means businesses stop creating enough jobs.” WantMeanEnoughJobsEconomicCreatingGainsMajoritySellsCustomersCorporationsPurchasingPurchasing Power Author:Robert Reich
“A lot of artists have been persuaded into doing whatever they can do to gain attention. The media, of course, will position and promote the worst of them to the front page. The sidewalk to crime becomes the marketing campaign. These artists have seen it work and sell millions and millions of records for other artists.” Has BeensArtistCoursesCan DoAttentionMillionsRecordsWorstMediaFrontsCrimePositionPagesGainsSellsMarketingCampaignsSidewalkMarketing Campaigns Author:Chuck D
“In real estate you can avoid ever having to pay a capital gains tax, decade after decade, century after century. When you sell a property and make a capital gain, you simply turn around and buy a new property. The gain is not taxed. It's called "preserving your capital investment" - which goes up and up in value with each transaction.” RealValuesTurnsPayCenturyTaxesGainsSellsPropertyInvestmentDecadesEstatesTransactionsCapital GainsCapital InvestmentCapital Gains Tax Author:Michael Hudson
“If you're a wealthy heir with a trust fund, and you sell stocks, make your 10% gains since Donald Trump, and then you buy other stocks, you can avoid paying taxes. And if your accountant registers your wealth offshore in a Panamanian fund, like Russian kleptocrats do - and as more and more Americans do - you don't have to pay any tax at all, because it's not American income, it's foreign income in an enclave without an income tax.” IfsWealthPayTrumpTaxesGainsSellsIncomeFundWealthyRegisterIncome TaxHeirsAccountantsPaying TaxesOffshoreTrust Funds Author:Michael Hudson
“What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown, Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?” IfsDreamJoyWinningWeekMinutesSweetGainsDestructionEternityBreathsSellsToysCrownsFleetingBeggarGrapesVinesMirth Author:William Shakespeare
“Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean. Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor, and in the arms of the Sea be secure. Who indeed should be so fortunate? An Ocean wooing a drop! In God's name, in God's name, sell and buy at once! Give a drop, and take this Sea full of pearls.” GivingShouldNamesSeaRegretArmsHonorOceanGainsSellsSecureFortunatePearlsWooing Book:The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi