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Working pays the bills, but it doesn’t build wealth, only investing builds wealth.
When it comes to investing, there are five essential rules:
1. Contribute regularly.
2. Invest in growth assets for the long term, like shares or property.
3. Reinvest all earnings, where possible.
4. Never take it out. I don’t sell any of my long-term shares; I live off the dividends.
5. Only invest in things you understand. I avoid get rich quick schemes, managed funds and structured products.Speaker: Ashley OrmondPosted: 12 Oct 2008 at 5:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Speaker: Sir Richard SteelePosted: 07 Oct 2008 at 8:33 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types—the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine.
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The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
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A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
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Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about God or about the sufferings of Christ? I thought the chief reason was that one was told one ought to. An obligation to feel can freeze feelings.
Speaker: C. S. Lewis, author (1898-1963)Posted: 05 Oct 2008 at 4:09 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Faith in Christ is able to endure doubts—it’s able to endure temptations—because it faces [them], not because it pretends [they’re] not there.
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The perfect race car crosses the finish line in first place and then falls to pieces.
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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
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Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?’ But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.
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Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, then that of blindfolded fear.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.
Speaker: Thomas Pynchon, writer (b. 1937)Posted: 05 Oct 2008 at 4:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
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The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber had… his photocopier…
Source: BBC Radio 4, "I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue"Posted: 05 Oct 2008 at 4:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
Speaker: E.B. White, writer (1899-1985)Posted: 05 Oct 2008 at 3:59 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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That’s beyond the scope of this class. It would make a good exam question.
Speaker: Dr. Mike GoodrichSource: CS 470 Fall 2008Posted: 02 Oct 2008 at 11:31 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
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