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"Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it"
"People with low financial literacy standards are often unable to take their ideas and create assets out of them."
"The primary reason in starting a business part-time is not so much to make a product great. The real reason for starting a part-time business is to make you a great businessperson."
"Financial leverage is the advantage the rich have over the poor and middle class."
"Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing."
"Our experience tends to confirm a long-held notion that being prepared, on a few occasions in a lifetime, to act promptly in scale, in doing some simple and logical thing, will often dramatically improve the financial results of that lifetime."
"In the financial markets I find it easy to predict what will happen and very difficult to predict when it will happen. I think that things were clear during the bubble as to what would happen eventually."
"When investing, pessimism is your friend, euphoria the enemy."
"[C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich."
"Incredibly, at this critical juncture in financial history, after which so much changed so quickly, the only constraint in the subprime mortgage market was a shortage of people willing to bet against it."
"A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag."
"Financial freedom is freedom from fear."
"These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis."
"The reason so many financial advisors are called brokers is because they are often broker than you."
"Doing more and more with less and less is one form of being generous. In fact, the easiest way to become rich is by being generous."
"If you must work for money, find a way to work and be happy. That is financial intelligence."
"Financial planners are salespeople. They are NOT teachers. Get your education from someone NOT getting a commission."
"Design your financial future in every respect, and then make a plan to achieve it."
"At the point the money hits your hands, you have the power to determine your financial future."
"Many financial advisors recommend that you diversify for your own protection. What they fail to tell you is that it is also for their protection. Since most financial advisors cannot tell you exactly which stock or mutual fund is a great investment, they tell you to buy a bunch of them."