"My wealth came from growing businesses. I had wealth, but not liquidity. Basically I transferred illiquid shares of AIC for liquid shares of Manulife. Now I'm the biggest individual shareholder of Manulife."

-- Michael Lee-Chin

#Growing Quotes #Liquid Quotes #Wealth Quotes

“A father is a fellow who has replaced the currency in his wallet with snapshots of his kids.”
“Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been.”

Source : Laurence Steinberg (2011). “You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
“If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.”
“Never confuse sitting on your side with being on your side.”

Source : "Dishonourable Insults: A Cantankerous Collection of Political Invective". Book by Greg Knight, 2011.
“[But if things continue the way they are] ...the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to create itself in the midst of fuss, noisiness and panic, and will have to face the prospects of both internal and external war.”

Source : "Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict". Book by Tony Kushner, Alisa Solomon, p. 16., 2003.
“What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.”
“The spread of democracy is a wonderful thing-it is a necessary foundation for peace-and it can happen. But it cannot be advanced by force, and still less by the creation of a new empire, an idea that is as unworkable as it morally mistaken. Empire, the embodiment of force, violates equity on a global scale. No lover of freedom can give it support. It is especially contrary to the founding principles of the United States.”
“I had a goal, I had a dream... and at the end of the day no matter what people say to you as long as YOU know who you are as a person NOTHING else in the world matters.”

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