“You can only have so much stuff, but you can never have too many stories.” – Paul Sullivan Great stories are one of the keys to happiness. Not great stories that you read in books but great stories that you live. Author Donald Miller writes about how he learned this lesson in his book…
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen, nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” – Wilkins Micawber in the book David Copperfield by Charles Dickens I have a confession to make. The Micawber Principle, as stated above and from which this blog gets…
“The weakest of all weak things is virtue that has not been tested in the fire.” – Mark Twain “Ethicist Michael Josephson says ethics is all about how we meet the challenge of doing the right thing when that act will cost us more than we want to pay.” – John M. Huntsman, Sr. …
I am not a big gambler. However, I do have enough experience playing nickel slots in Vegas (I am a real high-roller when I do gamble) to have learned that it is easy to get two sevens on a classic three-column slot machine but almost impossible to get three (777) and win the jackpot. This…
I appreciate everyone’s support in 2016. Thanks to loyal readers I was able to grow my blog significantly. Hopefully I was able to entertain, inform, and motivate you to improve your financial situation. I look forward to another fun year sharing the best financial quotes, ideas, and stories with you in 2017 but before we…
A roundup of my favorite financial articles from December 2016: “Finding Contentment in Well Enough” by Penny at She Picks Up Pennies This won’t be a surprise to those of you who know me personally, but I am not a financial superstar. I have never made a ton of money and I have struggled to…
