Sublime

People who believe themselves of social consequence tend to leave more of a paper trail,

Each of these men personalized his successes and began to believe he would only ever have success.

I recently read a bestseller called The Millionaire Next Door, an extremely misleading (but almost enjoyable) book by two “experts,” in which the authors try to infer some attributes that are common to rich people.

People with enduring personal finance success—not necessarily those with high incomes—tend to have a propensity to not give a damn what others think about them.

Research sociologist

Her experiments are profound—her findings suggest that living in a culture that surrounds us with reminders of money may shape our behavior and our attitudes in ways that we do not know about and of which we may not be proud.

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“What 20% of customers/products/regions are producing 80% of the profit? What factors or shared characteristics might account for this?”