personal finance and career success, in balance with life
The quotes (10, plus a bonus): “Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.” -Oscar Wilde I’ve found this to be [...] Read more »
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchill “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.” – Walter Elliott “No man is ever whipped, until he quits — in his own mind.” – Napoleon Hill “I do not think [...] Read more »
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy I’ve written before about why I don’t watch the news, political or otherwise. I do get some news – I check the local news to make sure there’s not a road closing near me or a new farmers’ market [...] Read more »
I’m sure I’ve made it clear during the four years I’ve written here at brip blap that I’m no fan of Apple. I don’t like the pretentious nature of their advertising, their closed source software, or the fawning attention paid to their products that command a tiny percentage of the market. But when I learned [...] Read more »
It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life. — Barthold Georg Niebuhr Niebhur was a German statesman and philosopher in the late 18th/early 19th century, whose most well-known contribution is his “Roman History“ (shameless affiliate link, natch) . He’s probably not therefore that well-known, but his quote is excellent. [...] Read more »
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. -Jim Rohn Rohn’s right. Most of my formal education (a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, a failed stint in math PhD school, then a successful unclassified accounting-major equivalency followed by a master’s degree in accountancy) helps me land consulting work via the old-fashioned [...] Read more »
For no real reason, I was looking up quotes on ambition and quickly found a number worthy of keeping on hand. I thought some were funny, some were thought-provoking, and the last one (check out the link) reminded me that ambition can come in all shapes, sizes and flavors. “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without [...] Read more »