Phillip B. Chute > Quotes

“All our souls touch others in different ways. An open heart and mind are helpful in this journey through life.”
― Phillip B. Chute, The Silver Thread of Life

“he Dow Jones Industrial Average is the sum of the largest 30 corporations, although they represent the bulk of the trading on that exchange. This average dominates everybody’s thinking about the market being up or down or whatever. Try to make individual stock picks and forget about the market. A good market could pull your stock up and, a bad one could pull it down, but the real investment factor is how well the company is managed and performs within the stock market.”
― Phillip B. Chute, Stocks, Bonds & Taxes: A Comprehensive Handbook and Investment Guide for Everybody

“Blue-chip stocks are a reasonable investment for the elderly investor because they usually pay cash dividends which the retired person may need to live on, and are usually more conservative than other investments, excluding bonds. Holdings in these stocks should be long-term to avoid trading costs and speculation.”
― Phillip B. Chute, Stocks, Bonds & Taxes: A Comprehensive Handbook and Investment Guide for Everybody

“Financial advisors have a fiduciary duty to correctly document your age, income, savings, financial experience, and risk assessment. They are required not to match conservative investors with risky investments and to make their clients aware of the difference. This is the main point of contention on Broker-Dealer Sales Representative complaints for arbitration.”
― Phillip B. Chute, Stocks, Bonds & Taxes: A Comprehensive Handbook and Investment Guide for Everybody

“Leave yourself open to the universe, give yourself to the universe, and it will return your openness in kindness. Let your guardian spirits visit.”
― Phillip B. Chute, The Silver Thread of Life

“Everybody has different spiritual gifts and our spiritual guides are here to help us use them.”
― Phillip B. Chute, The Silver Thread of Life

“Oh God! Ray will kill me.” She ran into the bathroom, showered, and dressed.

“What will you tell your husband?” Jack asked when he kissed her in the doorway.

“That I was shopping.”

“Won’t he notice you’re not bringing anything home?”

She laughed. She dashed out the door, tired but satisfied. When Ray approached her that night, she grimaced, finding his advances almost unendurable.”
― Phillip B. Chute, Rock and Roll Murders: An Entrepreneur Finds That Murder is No Business Solution

“Alice put her hand over his mouth to quiet him, smiled, and said, “I want a house, Ray. A place for our kids to live and play.” As they left the chapel, they kissed. Alice was in love, Ray was in business. They were cursed.”
― Phillip B. Chute, Rock and Roll Murders: An Entrepreneur Finds That Murder is No Business Solution

“On a smoggy spring day, the midday sun baked two California Highway Patrolmen in dark blue uniforms and a bearded dirt biker astride his Yamaha. They stood on a dirt road between the San Andreas barren earthquake faulted hills crisscrossed with biker’s trails. The sergeant stood next to the still body of Eduardo Sanchez, a thirteen-year-old boy clad in a t-shirt and oversized shorts, lying on his back with three bullet wounds and powder burns tattooed on his forehead. An astonished look captured his small immature cold face.”
― Phillip B. Chute, Rock and Roll Murders: An Entrepreneur Finds That Murder is No Business Solution

“Workmen’s Compensation insurance is very complicated, expensive, and mandatory. Because it is mandatory and subject to government regulation and enforcement, it is much abused. The rates are much higher than they should be. If you have any employees (even an in-house babysitter or housekeeper makes you an employer) then you need W.C. coverage.”
― Phillip B. Chute, American Independent Business

“The little boy looked out the window from his tiny bedroom. It was late in the day but the sky was already darkened with the storm. He watched the snow race horizontally across the window and disappear in the oncoming night. Patches of snow piled up in the corners of the window to blow away and pile up again. The boy put his small hand on the window to feel the cold through the glass. He shivered, withdrawing to sit on his bed and watch from further back. 'Where does the cold come from?’ he asked himself. ‘Is it like darkness?”
― Phillip B. Chute, The Metric Clock

“Hopefully, you will encounter or have already encountered some silver or golden halos with the rare, truly charismatic people who give their all for us. They are out there, waiting for us to find them in the ether of our existence. Only a few of us will see their halos, beckoning from afar.”
― Phillip B. Chute, The Silver Thread of Life

“Some great investments are not bought on the open market or Big Board. They are grown economically by entrepreneurs in exceedingly small towns. An investment in the neighborhood or family is an asset to all involved.”
― Phillip B. Chute, Stocks, Bonds & Taxes: A Comprehensive Handbook and Investment Guide for Everybody

“I’ll get her back, one way or another, he thought as he worked into the evening. Money talks. Everybody can be bought or sold, even Alice.”
― Phillip B. Chute, Rock and Roll Murders: An Entrepreneur Finds That Murder is No Business Solution

“Dreams can be very powerful gifts and guides if remembered by people with open minds who accept what they see and feel.”
― Phillip B. Chute, The Silver Thread of Life

“Ray, like the person driving faster when the gas tank is near empty, was on a long trip to nowhere.”
― Phillip B. Chute, Rock and Roll Murders: An Entrepreneur Finds That Murder is No Business Solution

“The best investment is education and family. The rest will follow.”
― Phillip B. Chute, Stocks, Bonds & Taxes: A Comprehensive Handbook and Investment Guide for Everybody

“Messages from family members are the strongest messages and are full of meaning and love. They come from powerful spirits which keep us alive for the present and especially the future, not to be ignored or forgotten. They are spiritual messages from the etheric space that we call “Heaven” or the “Holy Spirits”
― Phillip B. Chute, The Silver Thread of Life

“It was peaceful without Rock and Roll music pounding away in the background. For one of the few times in her life, Alice was at peace with herself. The bird flew away to the fountain below. Free as a bird, Alice thought. Suddenly something sour welled up inside her as she realized that she was back where she had started with Ray and the business. She cried, gently at first then sobbed; realizing she was a prisoner in King Ray’s castle again. She knew Ray would kill to keep her in his
dungeon. By returning, she was his property forever.”
― Phillip B. Chute, Rock and Roll Murders: An Entrepreneur Finds That Murder is No Business Solution

“There was a quiet period before the trial, similar to the deadening silence when birds know a raptor is in their midst. At first, the imminent trial was on the horizon; then it disappeared for more than a year.”
― Phillip B. Chute, Rock & Roll Murders

“It was peaceful without Rock and Roll music pounding away in the background. For one of the few times in her life, Alice was at peace with herself. The bird flew away to the fountain below. Free as a bird, Alice thought. Suddenly something sour welled up inside her as she realized that she was back where she had started with Ray and the business. She cried, gently at first then sobbed; realizing she was a prisoner in King Ray’s castle again. She knew Ray would kill to keep her in his dungeon. By returning, she was his property forever.”
― Phillip B. Chute, Rock and Roll Murders: An Entrepreneur Finds That Murder is No Business Solution