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"I have a family member who is interested in buying a home and he would be a first-time buyer. Unfortunately, both him and his spouse's credit is not good (he does say hers is a little better than his). Any suggestions?"
"My idea of the living the dream was really to go out there and see the world, to work, to challenge myself, to push myself. I did not do well in high school at all. I didn’t find the topics that interesting."
"There are actually three different levels of organization. First you declutter, then you actually organize. What we all want is to be more productive and productivity comes from living a more organized life. So people are looking to get more out of their day because they want to be more productive."
"Should I jump ship from my career field to something else where I'm better compensated and challenged?"
"Our approach to lending money to students as they go to school is really designed around the concept of being clear and trying to be personalized with how the student borrows money. We try to keep the terms of the loan aligned so that they’re in the best interest of each individual student."
"People say ideas are a dime a dozen, execution is everything. I’m going to call a little bit of BS on that. A good idea is hard to have so you have to really have a strong creativity muscle."
"I micromanage my money and love rearranging it. I have different savings buckets for savings, vacation, bills, long-term goals, and even have an account for my dog. Am I getting too granular with budgeting and saving?"
"The word "fear" itself is not a positive word. When people say it, they don’t think of it as a “positive emotion”. I think that was, that’s a mistake. I mean, throughout my experiences in life, everything worthy has been terrifying at first including writing a book on fear."
"I tend to see all sides as being valuable. When people are debating, it’s the juicy middle that I'm going for...My goal as I sit there is to find out and ask questions that these people wouldn’t ask each other because they're too busy trying to posture their sides."
