“The price of investing success is not immediately obvious. It’s not a price tag you can see, so when the bill comes due it doesn’t feel like a fee for getting something good. It feels like a fine for doing”
― The Psychology of Money
― The Psychology of Money
“something wrong. And while people are generally fine with paying fees, fines are supposed to be avoided. You’re supposed to make decisions that preempt and avoid fines. Traffic fines and IRS fines mean you did something wrong and deserve to be punished. The natural response for anyone who watches their wealth decline and views that drop as a fine is to avoid future fines.”
― The Psychology of Money
― The Psychology of Money
“Why do so many people who are willing to pay the price of cars, houses, food, and vacations try so hard to avoid paying the price of good investment returns?”
― The Psychology of Money
― The Psychology of Money
“even trees bear allegiance to their soil, you see. Just like people,’ she told me wisely. ‘It is difficult to uproot them and place them where they don’t belong.”
― Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory
― Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory
“Expecting a woman in this landscape to demonstrate dissent by cutting ties with her family—the only institution that provides her material security in the absence of a supportive state or an inclusive market that values her labour—is, perhaps, asking for too much.”
― Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
― Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
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