Quotes about "Personal Finance & Financial Independence"

I grew up hunting with shotguns and rifles, and we had a gun in every corner of the living room. I'm not a gun advocate, but that's the way I grew up. ”

About two years into living in Toronto, my apartment burned to the ground. My husband and I ended up living in his grandparents' attic for a year and a half. ”

I don't have any interest to go to Israel. I don't think I'd ever have a cause to go. ”

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me. ”

The dynamic between two individuals starts off with everything warm and nice and fabulous and good. Working and living together can serve you quite well, but when it starts to go wrong - oh, boy! ”

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death. ”

My father was stationed at Clark Air Base in the Philippines, which had a hospital where they brought casualties straight from the battlefield. My mother was kind of a sophisticated bohemian, and my father was in the military to make a living. ”

The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living. ”

I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close. ”

It's a privilege to do what I do for a living - to take people out of their miserable day, or to educate somebody, or make somebody laugh, or fall in love with an idea. How good is that? And I get paid to do it! ”