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"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."
"My 12-year old son has expressed an interest in investing. Is this an appropriate age to start teaching him? How much of his "private capital" shall we allow him to allocate toward investing?"
"We have two major issues with the very broken higher education system in this country. The first is that young people are leaving school unprepared for the job market and without the necessary skills or experiences, to bring value to an employer. And then the second is that whether they get the degree or not, they’re leaving school with insurmountable crippling levels of debt."
"[Women] tend to want to dress up for the occasion...I think a lot of women feel like they want to be taken seriously and they want to feel their best self. I think there’s something in the power of costume and what you throw on really impacts the way you’re feeling that day."
