Lampis the shipowner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, ‘my great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.’
—Epictetus
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Epictetus on Creating Wealth
Posted in Wealth, tagged wealth on September 5, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Money is Simply another Tool
Posted in Uncategorized, Wealth, tagged money, wealth on October 5, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
—Ayn Rand
Investment Intelligence
Posted in Uncategorized, Wealth, tagged investments, wealth on February 11, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Remember that investments are never too high for you to begin buying or too low to begin selling.
—Jesse Livermore
Adam Smith on Wealth
Posted in Uncategorized, Wealth, tagged money on December 2, 2015| Leave a Comment »
No complaint…is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
—Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
Eckhardt on Creating Wealth by Thinking Differently
Posted in Wealth, tagged wealth on October 23, 2015| Leave a Comment »
There is a persistent overall tendency for equity to flow from the many to the few. In the long run, the majority loses. The implication for the trader is that to win you have to act like the minority. If you bring normal human habits and tendencies to trading, you’ll gravitate toward the majority and inevitably lose.
—William Eckhardt, mathematician and famed trader
Bob Hope on Banking
Posted in Wealth, tagged loans on June 5, 2015| Leave a Comment »
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.
—Bob Hope
Enjoyment of Life
Posted in Wealth on March 15, 2012| Leave a Comment »
