"Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate."

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Source : Sir Walter Raleigh (1751). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and Philosophical; Together with His Letters and Poems. The Whole Never Before Collected Together, and Some Never Yet Printed. To which is Prefix'd, a New Account of His Life by Tho. Birch”, p.351

Walter Raleigh

#Men Quotes #Estates Quotes #Borrowing Quotes

“You'd be amazed at the number of people who want to introduce themselves to you in the men's room. It's the most bizarre part of this entire thing.”
“One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts and gives the inmost motives. One of the most mendacious is autobiography.”
“Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men,”
“Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.”

Source : "In His Best Letter In A Long Time, Bill Gross Explains Why Stocks Are Going To Be Horrible Investments" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. July 31, 2012.
“Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves, mythical prohibitions and intractability? That is subversive. And welcome.”
“The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.”
“Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.”
“Look in, look the storm in the eye. Look out, to the sea and the sky. Look around, at the sight and sound. Look in, look out, look around.”

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