miscellany, by branden

“ If you’re in debt then you’re a slave, in the sense that you do not have the freedom to use your money to help change your family tree.

— Dave Ramsey

“ A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

— Sir Francis Bacon

“ I think what religion and politics have in common is that they become part of people’s identity, and people can never have a fruitful argument about something that’s part of their identity. By definition they’re partisan.

— Keep Your Identity Small

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“ Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.

— Barbara Tober

“ If I caress a young child,
Immediately I think: farewell!
I will yield my place to you,
For I must fade while your flower blooms.

— Pushkin’s Poems. English Translation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, and other poems.

“ Real estate market is not really a market. It’s just a just swap meet where people come to bid on things based on emotion, hormones or their own perceptions of supply and demand.

— Garth Turner

“ Too many people choose to be entrepreneurs as a lifestyle, without realizing that it takes everything you have and more to win. And if you aren’t in it to win, why not just take that nice job down the street that gives you five weeks of vacation.

— Michael Arrington

“ Rich nations must abandon their unsustainable lifestyle.

— Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao

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YM: Do you have any general saving and investing advice for young people?

CUBAN: Put it in the bank. The idiots that tell you to put your money in the market because eventually it will go up need to tell you that because they are trying to sell you something. The stock market is probably the worst investment vehicle out there. If you won’t put your money in the bank, NEVER put your money in something where you don’t have an information advantage. Why invest your money in something because a broker told you to? If the broker had a clue, he/she wouldn’t be a broker, they would be on a beach somewhere.