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“Roll with the punches. Bad things will happen; you’ll make mistakes. These are reasons to adjust your plans, not abandon them. Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it seems. FOCUS”
― The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security
― The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security
“Two thousand years ago, Seneca wrote: “Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those who you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one: men learn as they teach.”
― The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security
― The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security
“Anything or anybody who is living rent-free in your head is squatting. That energy and bandwidth could be better invested elsewhere”
― The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security
― The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security
“It seemed to me—articulated in words of today—that not only did she know how to put things well but she was developing a gift that I was already familiar with: more effectively than she had as a child, she took the facts and in a natural way charged them with tension; she intensified reality as she reduced it to words, she injected it with energy.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
“Mike Bloomberg once said, “I have always had a policy: If it’s a friend and they get a promotion, I don’t bother to call them; I’ll see them sometime and make a joke about it. If they get fired, I want to go out to dinner with them that night. And I want to do it in a public place where everybody can see me. Because I remember when I got fired from Salomon Brothers—I can tell you every single person that called me. That meant something. When I was made a partner? I have no recollection of that whatsoever.” My friend Todd Benson puts it this way: “Show up when it matters, when it means something. Never miss a funeral. Attend every wedding.”
― The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security
― The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security
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