As Benjamin Franklin warned a couple of centuries ago,
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Experience is an expensive school, but fools will learn in no other."
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If the world were falling apart I'd still invest in companies."
Warren Buffet - The oracle of Omaha.
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Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence,
and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to
live in hotels."
Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), Swiss Surrealist painter and sculptor.
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A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need
it."
Bob Hope.
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Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally
disappears."
Robert W. Sarnoff.
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It costs just as much to have a good superannuation fund as a bad one... which
one would you prefer?"
Venn Williams - Director - halogen Pty Ltd
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What kind of society isn't structured on greed?
The problem of social organisation is how to set up an arrangement under which
greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of system."
Milton Friedman
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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as
succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind
will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your
imagination."
Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money."
W.C. Fields
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Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure."
Errol Flynn.
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We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always
generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action."
Frank Tibolt
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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have
any."
Katharine Whitehorn.
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It frees you from doing things you dislike... Since I dislike doing nearly
everything, money is handy."
Groucho Marx