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"When you start to take more responsibility with your money, when you really start to manifest things that you want, people don’t see the hard work behind it. All my friends were like, “Oh you’re so lucky,” and I was like, “Not really. I have been working for this for a long time."
"Most people worry about the present and hope it works out for the future. I look at the future and say what are all my costs and margin going to be. I’ll make my decision based on the past potential of future profit."
"You never really know who your friends are until you go through a situation like this where you’re not the cool one anymore. I think that is a lesson in business, in personal finance, in relationships that deserves some remembrance."
"I’m very rarely critical of anyone else, which makes me kind of boring on social media but at the same time it will never be held against me. It’s good to proceed thinking that your grandma’s going to read everything."
"I know you will think I am crazy for asking this, but is a 401k a bad investment today? The market rides up and down with investors not limited to the rules of the 401k. Do you think taking your money and buying stock on a lower fee website is better?"
"People always ask me, "How do you do it? How do you balance it all?” It's certainly challenging, but what I often tell them and myself is no one is forcing me to do all these things. I’m doing them because I like them."
"At some point, everyone is going to be a victim of something. It could be small or it could be a fairly catastrophic one. It’s okay to accept a victim, but the task we all have to embrace is that you need to take that particular status and turn that challenge into opportunity."
"I feel like I’ve won the lottery. I go to work every day because I want to go to work. So, I wanted to extrapolate these lessons for people. What are the actionable strategies? How can you get closer to winning the career lottery? The lottery itself is not hackable."
"I went into this feeling like this is my mission. I want to change the way that people think about and use money. I want to expand our understanding of money to include more these psychological and emotional elements."
