#financial

Learn the lessons of history. Don't let how you feel about your tenure at your organization drive you to make poor investment decisions that could potentially derail a successful retirement. ↗

— Mark Singer

#retirement #retirement-planning #change

You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him," said Miss Hillyard. "It didn't pay, did it? Say he sacrificed his professional honour for the women and children we hear so much about -- but in the end it left him worse of." But that," said Peter, "was only because he committed the extra sin of being found out. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#dishonesty #falsification #family #financial-distress #honor

I've found that the less stuff I own, the less my stuff owns me. ↗

— Nathan W. Morris

#freedom #minimalism #peace #freedom

And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so what? We do it because we are born to do it, we feel we have no other choice and so be it. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#born #choice #contribute #culture #feel

But wishing our Kansas soldiers 'God speed' is not enough. We need to comfort, care for, and protect their families. And we should ease the financial burdens that these families often face. ↗

— Kathleen Sebelius

#care #comfort #ease #enough #face

Remember, buying something is not the problem. The problem comes when we believe, for that moment, that the object we’re buying is going to make us happy. ↗

— Celso Cukierkorn

#money-management #prosperity #money

As my father used to say: "There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#loans #money-management #money

Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#developments #economic #effects #felt #financial

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#economic #economic recovery #financial #financial system #get

Well, the U.S., of course, is the world's largest economy. It's about a quarter of the world's output. It's also home to many of the largest financial institutions and financial markets. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#also #course #economy #financial #financial markets