Wealth-Building Quote of the Day: J.K. Rowling

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This line comes from one of the most widely watched commencement speeches ever delivered, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination.” Rowling stood in front of Harvard’s graduating class and told them, plainly, that seven years after her own graduation she had failed on what she called an epic scale. A short … Read more

Wealth-Building Quote of the Day: Steve Jobs

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Jobs said this to The Wall Street Journal in 1993, at a point in his career that had nothing to do with the polished, world-conquering image most people associate with him today. He was in the middle of running NeXT, a company struggling with failed hardware and a string of departures. He wasn’t yet the … Read more

Wealth-Building Quote of the Day: Warren Buffett

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This is one of the most repeated pieces of financial advice in the world, and for good reason. Buffett has shared this line publicly on more than one occasion, including at a Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting, and it has since become something of a founding principle for anyone serious about building wealth from an … Read more