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| Smartest advice you ever got; Money lessons from 40 great minds | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 22 2008, 07:08 AM (96 Views) | |
| Red Rice | Jul 22 2008, 07:08 AM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/pf/080...ymag/index.html |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Jul 22 2008, 07:16 AM Post #2 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Smartest thing I ever heard was that money is not an end. It is only a means to an end, and if there is no concrete goal in mind for it, then money is both worthless and dangerous. |
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| Free Rider | Jul 22 2008, 09:23 AM Post #3 |
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Fulla-Carp
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My concrete goal is paying my bills every month. Does that count? |
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| Aqua Letifer | Jul 22 2008, 09:28 AM Post #4 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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It does! Heck even developing a savings is a concrete goal. But hoarding money just to have it is not a good plan at all IMO. |
| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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| QuirtEvans | Jul 22 2008, 09:58 AM Post #5 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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Derek Jeter is a great athlete and an amazing baseball player, but I wouldn't consider him a great mind. |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| John D'Oh | Jul 22 2008, 10:15 AM Post #6 |
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MAMIL
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My concrete goal is buying tons of stuff I don't really need simply to annoy poor people. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Jul 22 2008, 10:30 AM Post #7 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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I don't think you're taking quite the correct approach. |
| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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