Quotes about "Personal Finance & Financial Independence"

When you are a kid, you are beset by fears, and you think, 'I'll solve the fear by living forever and becoming a movie star.' ”

There's fear or faith. If you're living by fear, then you're always looking for security. If you're living by faith, then you're always looking for freedom. ”

The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom. ”

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. ”

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. ”

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. ”

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. ”

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right. ”

Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests. ”

You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives. ”