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12-13-2017, 06:13 AM
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Dryer sheet aficionado
Join Date: Mar 2012
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Early Retirement Quotes
These two quotes motivated me to retire early and continue to motivate me. I have a list that I am keeping of quotes like these that I review from time to time. I've seen the Mark Twain one many times but the one by Henry James really speaks to me. Do you have quotes that are meaningful to you?
Mark Twain:
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
Henry James:
"It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined."
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12-13-2017, 06:17 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Tellico Village
Posts: 2,622
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"Nobody cares what your life looks like more than you do, so make it happen"
Not sure if anyone else said it, but I do all the time.
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12-13-2017, 06:40 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Nov 2016
Posts: 9,526
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Not sure who quoted it but I heard it first right here.
"When you are on your death bed I never heard anyone say I wish I had spent more time at the office"
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12-13-2017, 06:52 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Texas
Posts: 10,941
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Quotes are interesting and I use them myself from time to time but they don't motivate me to do much of anything, especially important decisions like retiring. Once I get the "buy low and sell high" quote in the right order, I may change my mind. 
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12-13-2017, 07:32 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 280
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Where are the customer's yachts?
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12-13-2017, 07:35 AM
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Administrator
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Chicagoland
Posts: 40,726
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Don’t kick a fresh turd on a hot day.
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12-13-2017, 07:36 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 1,934
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I used to think I wanted a career. Now I realize I just wanted paychecks.
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And if I claim to be a wise man, it surely means that I don't know.
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12-13-2017, 08:12 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Midwest
Posts: 2,972
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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living withing your means. Calvin Coolidge
People don't realize how hard other people have to work just to make me rich. Thurston Howell III
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12-13-2017, 08:18 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 8,368
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Niven's Laws:
Never throw **** at an armed man.
Never stand next to someone who is throwing **** at an armed man.
(Asterisks are automatic Bowdlerisms...I put in the original)
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"Exit, pursued by a bear."
The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare
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12-13-2017, 08:28 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 953
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The longer you work, the more you can save.
The more you can save, the earlier you can retire.
Therefore-
The longer you work, the earlier you can retire!
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Well it's all right, we're heading to the end of the line...
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12-13-2017, 08:40 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: North Scottsdale
Posts: 1,545
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Work to live, don't live to work.
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FIRE'D in July 2009 at 51...Never look back!
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12-13-2017, 08:43 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 11,078
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Eff it I'm outa here!
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12-13-2017, 08:47 AM
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Dryer sheet wannabe
Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 14
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I read this quote on this forum, and it stuck with me:
" If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together ..." great quote to use for someone newly married.
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12-13-2017, 08:50 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: Hog Mountian
Posts: 2,077
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If someone's gonna throw rocks at you, make 'em get their own rocks.
I applied this frequently in staff / budget mtgs, etc.
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Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
W. Rogers
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12-13-2017, 08:52 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: Santa Paula
Posts: 4,077
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Translated from the Spanish:
Health, love, and money, and the time to enjoy it.
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Retired Jan 2009 Have not looked back.
AA 60/35/5 considering SS and pensions a SP annuity
WR 2% with 2SS & 2 Pensions
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12-13-2017, 08:59 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: West of the Mississippi
Posts: 17,266
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"It's OK to be employed by somebody else, but always work for yourself" - My Father.
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Comparison is the thief of joy
The worst decisions are usually made in times of anger and impatience.
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12-13-2017, 09:07 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Miraflores,Peru
Posts: 1,992
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Some of my favorites:
When it comes to something like value of stocks,bitcoin,tulips,art,etc
"It is not what's so, it is what people think is so".
Investing in general:
"You can make more money with your a$$, then you can with your brain".
General:
"For every beautiful women, there are at least two guys tired of her".
xrated fortune cookies:
"Don't give T-il, when He-d will do".
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12-13-2017, 09:09 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Atlanta Suburb
Posts: 1,499
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Office Space:
Bob - Looks like you have been missing a lot of work lately.
Peter - I wouldn't say I have been missing it. 
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"Oh, twice as much ain't twice as good
And can't sustain like one half could
It's wanting more that's gonna send me to my knees" - John Mayer
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12-13-2017, 09:43 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Sep 2017
Posts: 821
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“Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
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12-13-2017, 09:47 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Sep 2017
Posts: 821
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Here's another of my favorites, I think from John Lennon:
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans".
It's so true. You work for years for MegaCorp, being the good doobie, making a family life, paying taxes, etc. and then you look up and you're > 50yo and you've done almost none of the things you had always dreamed of doing in life.
Now, you still have MegaCorp breathing down your neck, with a host of "mini-managers" running around with the sound of "..break out the cots!" echoing down the hallways.
F*** this sh**!!
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“Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
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