The Leopard Slippers
June 29, 2025
180 – June 29 “It takes two flints to make a fire.”—Louisa May Alcott Betty, a retail seller of miscellaneous goods, approached me at the
180 – June 29 “It takes two flints to make a fire.”—Louisa May Alcott Betty, a retail seller of miscellaneous goods, approached me at the
179 – June 28 “He threw his money about like a man with no arms.”—William McIlvanney When you spend money, spend it with joy. Spend
178 – June 27 “To pretend to satisfy one’s desire by possession is like using straw to put out a fire.”—Chinese Proverb A major “Money
177 – June 26 “The truth will set you free—but first it will piss you off.” –Werner Erhard “Please balance my checkbook for me!” My
176 – June 25 “The old woman triumphantly announced that she had borrowed enough money to pay all her debts.”—P.L. Lord Anyone who has ever
175 – June 24 “The first payment is what made us think we were prosperous, and the other nineteen is what showed us we were
174 – June 23 “Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.”—Robert Orben Anne Farrelly, a financial planner in Los Angeles and author of Invest Without
173 – June 22 “We jump off buildings and make our wings on the way down.”—Ray Bradbury It was 1990, and the recession was in
172 – June 21 “I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.”—Thomas Edison When requested to fit a new project
171 – June 20 “Life is lived on the road—not at the inn.”—Spanish proverb Many people have asked me how to choose the right goals.
