Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck.
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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Two prime ministers are sitting in a room discussing affairs of state. Suddenly a man bursts in, apopletic with fury, shouting and stamping and banging his fist on the desk. The resident prime minister admonishes him:
“Peter,” he says, “kindly remember Rule Number 6,” whereupon Peter is instantly restored to complete calm, apologizes, and withdraws. The politicians return to their conversation, only to be interrupted yet again twenty minutes later by an hysterical woman gesticuating wildly, her hair flying. Again the intruder is greeted with the words:
“Marie, please remember Rule Number 6.” Complete calm descends once more, and she too withdraws with a bow and an apology. When the scene is repeated for the third time, the visiting prime minister addresses his colleague:
“My dear friend, I’ve seen many things in my life, but never anything as remarkable as this. Would you be willing to share with me the secret of Rule Number 6?”
“Very simple,” replies the resident prime minister. “Rule Number 6 is ‘Don’t take yourself so g–damn seriously.”
“Ah,” says his visitor, “that is a fine rule.” After a moment of pondering, he inquires, “And what, may I ask, are the other rules?”
“There aren’t any.”
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Albert Einstein
Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
Ibn Khaldoun
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
Ayn Rand
The man who became of his understanding of the laws of wealth, acquireth a growing surplus, should give thought to those future days. He should plan certain investments or provisions that may endure safely for many years, yet will be available when the time arrives which he has so wisely anticipated.
Compound interest on debt is the strongest force in the universe
We are inclined to think those people rich who have more money than we, but seldom conclude that we are rich because there are many people poorer than we.
The person who doesn’t know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn’t know where his last dollar went.
Unknown