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"Nowadays we have mortgages, student loans, car and credit card payments. We have retirement savings and emergency savings. We need to save for our kid’s college. It's becoming incredibly difficult. We have created a system that is very, very complex."
"I actually don’t use the word retirement very often. Stopping work doesn't appeal to me. It was never about cutting the cord on work altogether. It's about having the power and the freedom to do what I want when I want. To work on the things that I want to work on regardless of whether they pay or not."
"You always trade your money off for some value. When I was holding up a Coach purse... if I held up a Coach purse in one hand and then I held up a picture of my family in the other, I have to look at both of them and decide which one is more important to me in the long run."
"Sleep is starting to come back into the discussion because there’s just so much science, research and facts. It has us asking, "Am I clever enough? Am I producing the results? Am I making enough money? Is my relationship working?” If you look at yourself, it’s one of the most important factors in there."
"The top two reasons for divorce are money and communication. Yet, when you divorce or separate with kids, you have to communicate about money. So it doesn’t get better, it gets worse. Child support is the one bill in life that you don’t get a reminder for."
"How should we prepare ourselves for financial stability over the next four years, pending the outcome of this year's presidential election?"
"One of the big challenges is there are so many desperate decisions people have to make to achieve financial security. It’s education, career and investment decisions. I found that many of the business concepts I was working with as a professional investor seemed to apply to my family circumstances."
