“Men spend their lives in anticipations, – in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay […]
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.“– Warren Buffett Sometimes I wonder if people spend any time thinking of the possible negative effects of what they are doing, rather than only concentrating on what they are gaining in the […]
“If a man has enough to live on, and yet when he sees his brother in need shuts up his heart against him, how can it be said that the divine love dwells in him?” – John 3:17 I am by no means a religious person – I don’t even consider myself agnostic or atheist. […]
“Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled […]
“Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.” ~Elise Boulding Hope […]
