“People who are not physically or financially attractive tend to apply themselves academically more than those who actually get great sex.”
“I don t know how you ll be getting your money into my bank account, but don t make me do too much work for it.”
“Borrowing money from a friend, Always Interrupts the friendship flow, Especially after missing the payment deadline, More than two weeks in a row”
“If all I cared about was me, I could make a million. And that’s what they will never understand.”
“...for we have found that by excluding we grow thin inside even though we may have an enormous bank account outside.”
“I don’t care too much for money, money can’t buy me love.”
“No, we do it for the money. And, because we above all must know the value of a human life, we do it for a great deal of money. There can be few cleaner motives, so shorn of all pretence. Nil mortifi, sine lucre. Remember. No killing without payment. He paused for a moment. And always give a receipt, he added.”
“He was back once more to the starting point: he must find money. Arms traffickers didn’t give their wares for nothing and volunteers did not join up on the strength of promissory notes.”
“Donald Trump is a pathetic puppet of ultra-Zionist billionaire Sheldon Adelson.”
“The average American watches more than four hours of TV each day. In a 65-year life, that person will have spent nine years glued to the tube. Why? Simple. Life sucks. Life needs an escape. Life is no good. Show me someone who spends hours online playing Mafia Wars or Farmville, and I ll show you someone who probably isn t very successful. When life sucks, escapes are sought. I don t need television because I invested my time into a real life worth living, not a fictitious escape that airs every Tuesday night at 8 p.m. Again, majority thinking yields mediocrity, and for that majority, time is an asset that is undervalued and mindlessly squandered.”
“This book could have easily been three words long: automate, automate, automate. It likely wouldn t have sold well, and you might have ignored the advice on account of it seeming too simple, but the fact is that many of the thornier elements of emotion can be done away with entirely by slavishly following a system of investment rules in all types of market weather.”
“Being a behavioral investor is less about adhering to some textbook notion of rationality and more about understanding and bending the idiosyncrasies of human nature to our advantage.”
“For a factor to be worthwhile to a behavioral investor it must be empirically supported, theoretically sound and behaviorally intransigent.”
“A fool and his money are soon parted.. A wise man therefore spends others money.”
“Other people’s pockets are our money’s dream home.”
“If you re going to be a grown-up,” said Joan, “you ve got to start thinking about grown-up things. And number one is money.”
“The Church teaches us that it is harder for a rich man to enter heaven than it is for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle. But it is quite possible for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, as long as the camel is dead, chopped extremely fine, and you have a lot of patience. I have always thought that instead money is like water. Let money flow to you and past you, like swimming in a river, and it s good, because them that money can be used for good. Keep it and you will drown. But most rich men don t even know they re drowning.”