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11-16-2007, 08:33 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
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Navin R. Johnson: Ah... It's a profit deal.
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11-16-2007, 08:45 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
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Location: minnesota
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No more lawyer stuff, no more political stuff, so no more CYA
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11-16-2007, 09:17 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
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two ways to be rich: earn more, desire less
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11-16-2007, 09:35 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jun 2007
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Make hay while the sun shines.
I find this especially relevant as I try to contain my desire to ER while I'm still accumulating FI. Really, the situation sometimes seems so bad and I want to be retired so much, yet in fact things are moving along rather favorably according to plan and I just need to stick it out for the last remaining years and I'll be in such good shape.
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11-16-2007, 11:18 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Location: Moscow
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Any idiot can pay full price.
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11-16-2007, 11:39 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.
(maybe has to be adjusted for inflation...)
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11-16-2007, 11:47 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
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"If you always do what you've always done, you will always get what you always got."
Translation: Be creative.
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Work? I don't have time to work....I'm retired.
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11-17-2007, 12:50 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Location: Willamette Valley, Oregon
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There are only three ways to gain wealth: earn it, inherit it, or marry it.
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Dreams Worth Dreaming are Dreams Worth Planning For. I Spent a Career Planning for Early Retirement.
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11-17-2007, 01:11 AM
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Dryer sheet wannabe
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Location: Houston/Texas
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From Mattress Mac
Late to bed
Early to rise
Work like hell
and advertise
Sure worked for him! Gallery Furniture, "makes him money!"
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11-17-2007, 02:26 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Not a proverb, but a story.
John D. Rockefeller once borrowed a nickel from a subordinate to pay for his trip home (this in his early days in Ohio). THe next day when he went to return the money, the subordinate said 'don't worry about it, its just a nickel.' Rockefeller said "nonsense, its a year's interest on a dollar".
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Money's just something you need in case you don't die tomorrow.
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11-17-2007, 07:21 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. "
Benjamin Franklin
When I was a small boy I used to read this on the cover of a farm bookkeeping ledger that my father had. It was printed under a drawing of an old wooden sailing ship. I think the ledger book was a free gift from a fertilizer company.
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11-17-2007, 08:18 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: May 2007
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Had to look up Thomas Tusser  ....only 53 y/o but full of bull malarkey wisdom  ....
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11-17-2007, 08:23 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Pacific latitude 20/49
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Selected favorite quotes
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking big money. -- US Senator Everett M. Dirksen
From Aesop's Fables: - Any excuse will serve a tyrant. 'The Wolf and the Lamb'
- Appearances are often deceiving. 'The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing'
- Don't count your chickens before they are hatched. 'The Milkmaid and Her Pail'
- Familiarity breeds contempt. 'The Fox and the Lion'
- It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. 'The Jay and the Peacock'
- Kindness effects more than severity. 'The Wind and the Sun'
- No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. 'The Lion and the Mouse'
- Slow and steady wins the race. 'The Hare and the Tortoise'
- The gods help them that help themselves. 'Hercules and the Waggoner'
- United we stand, divided we fall. 'The Four Oxen and the Lion'
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. -- Thomas Alva Edison, 'Life' Selected
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For the fun of it...Keith
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11-17-2007, 08:59 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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Those who seem the luckiest have often worked the hardest.
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11-17-2007, 11:15 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist.
"Neither a lender, nor a borrower be." - Ben Franklin
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
A friend in need is no friend of mine. 
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11-17-2007, 11:34 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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Location: Florida
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"No State shall make ... any thing but gold or silver a legal tender in payment of debts..." The U.S. Constitution, article 1, section 10. (circa 1787).
Just for laughs ...
A gold dollar is worth roughly $40 in today's dollar.
A silver dollar is worth roughly $10+ in today's dollars.
A "copper" penny had most of the copper taken out in the early 1980s, and even the zinc once today is worth ... more than a penny.
It's easy to see where our paper money system is taking us ... to unpleasant places.
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I've got nothing against an honest day's work, provided that someone else does it.
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11-17-2007, 11:35 AM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: minnesota
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When money speaks, the truth remains silent.
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No more lawyer stuff, no more political stuff, so no more CYA
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11-17-2007, 01:04 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Oahu
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All in my signature.
Our kid is really tired of hearing "Hmmm, it seems as though the harder you work, the luckier you get..."
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Author of the book written on E-R.org: "The Military Guide to Financial Independence and Retirement."
I don't spend much time here— please send a PM.
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11-17-2007, 01:27 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.
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11-17-2007, 01:31 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Location: DFW
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose. - Montgomery Clift
Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position. - Christopher Marlowe
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Resist much. Obey Little. . . . Ed Abbey
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