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31 Lessons I’ve Learned About Money
If it makes you a worse person (parent, neighbor, writer, whatever), it’s not success. If starting a business makes you a worse person—if it stresses you out, if it tears your relationships apart, if it makes you bitter or frustrated with people—then it doesn’t matter how much money it makes or external praise it receives. It’s not successfu
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They say that if you think professionals are expensive, try hiring an amateur. This is true in the sense that being cheap or looking for a bargain on services has come back to bite me many times. HOWEVER, I have also been disappointed with how many professionals are actually amateurs. Sometimes, if you want a thing done well, you have to do
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If you don’t take the money, they can’t tell you what to do . That’s what Bill Cunningham said: If they pay you, they get to tell you what to do . Remember his words: “Money’s the cheapest thing. Liberty, freedom is the most expensive.”
Ryan Holiday • 31 Lessons I’ve Learned About Money
Seneca said that poverty wasn’t having too little, it was wanting more. He wasn’t talking about poor people. He was talking about rich people.
Ryan Holiday • 31 Lessons I’ve Learned About Money
I’ve never met a person who ever reached ‘their number.’ You know, people say, ‘When I hit $Xm, I’ll be good.’ They say, ‘Once I have X years salary in the bank, I’ll be good.’ No one ever seems to get to that number. We’re never ‘good’ because we move the goalposts…(or because we set a preposterous and unrealistic number to begin with).