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"I’ve been on 600 different college campuses in the past 11/12 years. The similar characteristic I found was the students that I talked to had no idea how much they borrowed or how much their payments were going to be. I felt like that was a really shaky foundation and I wanted to write a book on it."
"The nice thing about what I do is this very good feeling knowing that you’ve helped literally hundreds of millions of students pay for college. And my goal is to try to make it as easy as possible despite the complexity of financial aid."
"We want the kids their junior year to say, “Here’s what I hope for my future and how can each institution help me meet those goals? What can they offer me? Is it a place where I’m going to be happy and successful, and move on relatively quickly?"
"I could have about 3/4 of my mortgage paid by 2020 or I could purchase a second property in my hometown (small seaside place), first to rent out and perhaps later use as a vacation property. What would you recommend? I am good on retirement and savings."
"The number one way to make more money if you’re working for someone else is to figure out what you’re worth. Most people are surprised to find that they are being paid a lot less than a lot of people that do the same work that they do."
"Back when I started designing, it was six degrees of separation. Who knows this person that knows this person? And so I had a couple of friends that knew people that knew people and it was a matter of getting my handbags in celebrities' hands."
"By day I was a marketing assistant and by night I was the rebel leader of a community of nerds around the world helping them get fit. It’s like this duality to my life and it allowed me to really go all in on one during the day and then jump and flip switches at night to the other one."
"A lot of people can feel hopeless. They’ve made some financial mistakes in the past, but one of the things we want people to understand is that you don’t have to be the result of your past. You have an opportunity to design your future."
