Jake Desyllas > Quotes

“Since I sold my business, my priority in life has been freedom. I have arranged my consumption habits and financial life around the goal of giving myself the freedom to do whatever I want with my day. I treasure never having to work on anything that I don’t want to. I now live from passive investments as a private investor. I spend my time only on projects and activities that I feel enthusiastic about.”
― Jake Desyllas, Job Free: Four Ways to Quit the Rat Race and Achieve Financial Freedom on Your Terms

“There is a dignity in the very effort to save with a worthy purpose. … It produces a well-regulated mind; it gives prudence a triumph over extravagance; it gives virtue the mastery over vice; it puts the passions under control; it drives away care; it secures comfort. Saved money, however little, will serve to dry up many a tear—will ward off many sorrows and heartburnings, which otherwise might prey upon us. —Samuel Smiles, 1875”
― Jake Desyllas, Job Free: Four Ways to Quit the Rat Race and Achieve Financial Freedom on Your Terms

“. If he had pursued a more traditional Wall Street career, he might have spent his remaining 28 years amassing a bigger and bigger fortune and spending it on the momentary pleasures of a consumption-oriented lifestyle.”
― Jake Desyllas, Job Free: Four Ways to Quit the Rat Race and Achieve Financial Freedom on Your Terms

“There is a dignity in the very effort to save with a worthy purpose. … It produces a well-regulated mind; it gives prudence a triumph over extravagance; it gives virtue the mastery over vice; it puts the passions under control; it drives away care; it secures comfort. Saved money, however little, will serve to dry up many a tear—will ward off many sorrows and heartburnings, which otherwise might prey upon”
― Jake Desyllas, Job Free: Four Ways to Quit the Rat Race and Achieve Financial Freedom on Your Terms