Quotes about "Personal Finance & Financial Independence"

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. ”

Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. ”

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. ”

Making music was always a big interest for me. ”

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh. ”

I did theatre when I was nine, I think. Nine and ten, and that was just the beginning of my whole involvement in acting, my whole interest. I don't really remember it that well. But it was really fun. I mean, it was exciting just to be on stage in front of an audience. It gives you a different kind of rush. ”

I am living in this world, and if this world already has a certain prejudice of me and an idea of me, then it's really hard for me to go through it. ”

For women, Neo-Confucianism placed extra emphasis on chastity, obedience, and diligence. A good wife should have no desire other than to serve her husband, no ambition other than to produce a son, and no interest beyond subjugating herself to her husband's family - meaning, among other things, she must never remarry if widowed. ”

Every woman has, for her own self-esteem, to work or have a major interest. ”

I will not sell anything ever again that I do not believe in. I'm not willing to do a job for pure financial gain. I've done that, and it wasn't worth it. ”