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… the one observation I’ve found the most useful is that economics is about more than money. It’s about the decisions you make with your time. And your time is your life. Time is money!

November 25, 2021 Nate

— Dan Denning

Life might be a race against time but it is enriched when we rise above our instincts and stop the clock to process and understand what we are doing and why. A wise decision requires reflection, and reflection requires a pause.

July 12, 2020 Nate

— Frank Partnoy

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

June 22, 2020June 22, 2020 Nate

— 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

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Why has time disappeared in our culture?

June 11, 2020June 11, 2020 Nate

— 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

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Don’t worry too much about making money. It won’t change the way you live. Time spent earning enough money is time reasonably well spent. Time earning an excess of money far beyond that required to meet one’s needs, however, is time wasted.

January 3, 2020January 3, 2020 Nate

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No person hands out their money to passersby, but to how many do each of us hand out our lives! We’re tightfisted with property and money, yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers.

October 30, 2019October 30, 2019 Nate

— Seneca

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