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“If you really are passionate about something and it just pumps through your veins and you can't stop thinking about it…and you're excited to share it with the world, then you just gotta jump.”
"Farnoosh, you've said that salary negotiations should be based on knowing what you're worth to the firm, how can I think through the process of coming up with that figure?"
"How much is enough to retire with? Is there one good rule of thumb?"
"All these groups, women's groups and men's groups, mom blogs and dad blogs, organizations founded by Maria Shriver and Sheryl Sandberg, these groups immediately came out supporting me on this and it was this Eureka moment for me."
"Never look at anything that doesn't work out as a failure or a big giant massive thing that's unrecoverable, but rather just something that requires adjustment."
“Why wait until you're a young adult to have the concept of an emergency fund? How neat if you already know that… or you know about compound interest, separating your money into separate buckets like spending, saving and giving?”
“To me, what paid me was the fact that I was able to perform. The performing was something I loved so much I could picture myself paying to do it. And fortunately it actually paid me very, very well to do it. But I loved it so much that the money was not really the motivating factor.”
“I'm trying to keep my lifestyle in such a way that my baseline is as low as possible, so I can take risks, save money, and not feel like this is the minimum that I need for my ego or for my basic sense of comfort."
"Farnoosh, What's One of Your Financial Failures?"
