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Smartest advice you ever got; Money lessons from 40 great minds
Topic Started: Jul 22 2008, 07:08 AM (96 Views)
Red Rice
HOLY CARP!!!
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/pf/080...ymag/index.html
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
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ZOOOOOM!
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.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Aqua Letifer
Jul 22 2008, 07:16 AM
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.

My concrete goal is paying my bills every month.

Does that count?
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Jul 22 2008, 09:23 AM

My concrete goal is paying my bills every month.

Does that count?

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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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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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Jul 22 2008, 01:23 PM
Aqua Letifer
Jul 22 2008, 07:16 AM
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.

My concrete goal is paying my bills every month.

Does that count?

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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John D'Oh
Jul 22 2008, 10:15 AM

My concrete goal is buying tons of stuff I don't really need simply to annoy poor people.

I don't think you're taking quite the correct approach.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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