People buy books [and] Amazon is so easy. Go to the library instead.

It's great being able to keep up. Even without my sight, I can talk about books with people who can still read and know what's going on,

You normally don't get a margin call unless your securities, minus the debt, are worth 30% or less of their nominal market value.

You'll almost certainly spend all the rest of your pay, but your daily expenses will adjust themselves, magically, to the amount of money in your account. You will budget mentally, without having to write everything down.

The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.

If your eight times income is half a million dollars and you have two kids, you'd add another $200,000, so you'd have a $700,000 policy. That sounds like a lot, but when it's term insurance it is actually cheap.