The highest dividend money pays is the ability to control time…

The highest dividend money pays is the ability to control time…

— Morgan Housel (link)

“Being able to do what you want, when you want, where you want, with who you want and for as long as you want provides a lasting level of happiness that no amount of “fancy stuff” can ever offer. 

The thrill of having fancy stuff wears off quickly. But a job with flexible hours and a short commute will never get old. Having enough savings to give you time and options during an emergency will never get old. Being able to retire when you want to will never get old.

Achieving independence is our ultimate goal in life. But independence isn’t an “all-or-nothing” — every dollar you save is like owning a slice of your future that might otherwise be managed by someone else, based on their priorities.”

When I was born, humanity was 95 per cent illiterate. Since I’ve been born, the population has doubled and that total population is now 65 per cent literate. That’s a gain of 130-fold of the literacy. When humanity is primarily illiterate, it needs leaders to understand and get the information and deal with it. When we are at the point where the majority of humans them-selves are literate, able to get the information, we’re in an entirely new relationship to Universe. We are at the point where the integrity of the individual counts and not what the political leadership or the religious leadership says to do

When I was born, humanity was 95 per cent illiterate. Since I’ve been born, the population has doubled and that total population is now 65 per cent literate. That’s a gain of 130-fold of the literacy. When humanity is primarily illiterate, it needs leaders to understand and get the information and deal with it. When we are at the point where the majority of humans them-selves are literate, able to get the information, we’re in an entirely new relationship to Universe. We are at the point where the integrity of the individual counts and not what the political leadership or the religious leadership says to do

― Richard Buckminster Fuller, Only Integrity Is Going to Count: Integrity Day, Los Angeles February 26, 1983

Why has time disappeared in our culture?

Why has time disappeared in our culture?

— Jacob Needleman From “Money and the meaning of life” p. 29

… How is it that after decades of inventions and new technologies devoted to saving time and labor, the result is that there is no time left? We are a time-poor society: we are temporally impoverished. And there is no issue, no aspect of human life, that exceeds this in importance. The destruction of time is literally the destruction of life.

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We rarely feel that our time is ‘our own.’ We rarely sense that we are consciously alive, now and here, free from compulsive worry about the past and the future, free fully to experience our lives. The coin of time has been degraded and cheapened to the point of vanishing.”

Don’t you find it strange that you can raise a family, hold down a job, fix things that are broken, and deal with everything that comes up in your life — except your money? … How is it possible that we’re all too busy working so hard to earn our money to be able to deal with the money we are working so hard to earn? … What prevents you from dealing with your money is not lack of time, but your fear of money. … The sooner you deal with your fears, the more money you will be able to create.

Don’t you find it strange that you can raise a family, hold down a job, fix things that are broken, and deal with everything that comes up in your life — except your money? … How is it possible that we’re all too busy working so hard to earn our money to be able to deal with the money we are working so hard to earn? … What prevents you from dealing with your money is not lack of time, but your fear of money. … The sooner you deal with your fears, the more money you will be able to create.

— Suze Orman