Wisdom from the Wealthy: Sunday’s WaPo Column

June 20, 2011 10:30am by Barry Ritholtz

In case you missed it, my Sunday Washington Post column is on the interesting life lessons I have learned from people of great wealth.

I excerpted it yesterday. Rather than run yet another excerpt, I’d rather a) Point you to “7 life lessons from the very wealthy,” and 2) pull some of the quotes that I used in it.

Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
-Bill Vaughan

“Amat victoria curam.“
(Translation: “Victory loves careful preparation.”)

“Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.”
-Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
-John Lennon, “Beautiful Boy”

If you enjoy quotes and aphorisms such as these, I suggest you follow Market Quotes on Twitter.

Source:
7 life lessons from the very wealthy
Barry Ritholtz
Washington Post June 18 Page G6| Updated: Friday, June 17, 9:45 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/7-life-lessons-from-the-very-wealthy/2011/06/15/AGxw6aaH_story.html

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