Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
Bill Cosby
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
John F. Kennedy
I can't give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure; try to please everybody all the time.
Herbert Bayard Swope, American editor and journalist, first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize
Now, here's a quote from Ferris, and then a bit on his ideas:
"For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up all the pins either."
Gold is getting old. The New Rich (NR) are those who abandon the deferred-life plan and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility. This is an art and a science we will refer to as Lifestyle Design (LD).
People don’t want to be millionaires — they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy. Ski chalets, butlers, and exotic travel often enter the picture. Perhaps rubbing cocoa butter on your belly in a hammock while you listen to waves rhythmically lapping against the deck of your thatched-roof bungalow? Sounds nice.
$1,000,000 in the bank isn’t the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows. The question is then, How can one achieve the millionaire lifestyle of complete freedom without first having $1,000,000?
The best part of the book, which I'm not finished yet, are the questions he asks, such as,
How do your decisions change if retirement isn’t an option?
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