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- Author: Bach, David
Highlights
If you don’t know where you’re going, you might not like where you end up. — location: 94
“be happy with what you have! Besides, sweetheart, money won’t make you happy.” — location: 206
getting a word out. All of them? None of them? “I’m … I’m not clear on — location: 365
Most people, when they have more income, just spend it on more stuff.” — location: 344
“How many lottery winners end up in debt? For these folks, making the money isn’t the problem, you see. The problem is keeping it. — location: 348
Because most people, when they earn more, simply spend more. Earnings are like the tide, you see, and your spending is like a boat. When the tide rises, the boat rises with it.” — location: 350
Everyone thinks they know about them, but hardly anyone does them. — location: 360
Pay Yourself First. — location: 383
“When you go to work, you trade your time for money. — location: 393
“It is simple,” Henry replied. “That’s why it works. It’s usually the simplest ideas that change people’s lives, not the complicated ones.” — location: 477
What matters is what’s behind the numbers. When you pay yourself first, what you’re really doing is putting yourself first .” — location: 482
A focus on service to others is the defining trait that makes us civilized human beings. But life is paradox, and sometimes the only way you can serve others is to put yourself first. — location: 487
I believe that each one of us was put here on this earth, in this life, to do something, something special. Something no one else can do. And most of us aren’t doing it—because we’re too busy paying everyone else first.” — location: 493
Most people, when they earn more, simply spend more. — location: 503
Ten dollars a day can change your life. — location: 505