

“A mindset that can be paranoid and optimistic at the same time is hard to maintain, because seeing things as black or white takes less effort than accepting nuance. But you need short-term paranoia to keep you alive long enough to exploit long-term optimism. Jesse Livermore figured this out the hard way.”
― The Psychology of Money
― The Psychology of Money

“Saving is the gap between your ego and your income.”
― The Psychology of Money
― The Psychology of Money

“Therefore, focus less on specific individuals and case studies and more on broad patterns.”
― The Psychology of Money
― The Psychology of Money

“At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will never have … enough.” Enough. I was stunned by the simple eloquence of that word—stunned for two reasons: first, because I have been given so much in my own life and, second, because Joseph Heller couldn’t have been more accurate. For a critical element of our society, including many of the wealthiest and most powerful among us, there seems to be no limit today on what enough entails.”
― The Psychology of Money
― The Psychology of Money

“Spending money to show people how much money you have is the fastest way to have less money.”
― The Psychology of Money
― The Psychology of Money
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