Italian billionaire Brunello Cucinelli on what money can’t buy: “There are three things you cannot buy. Fitness: You have to keep fit, whether you’re rich or not. Diet: You cannot pay someone to be on a diet for you. Then, looking after your soul. No one can possibly treat your soul but you yourself.” Source: […]
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Eugene Peterson: Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence—religious meaning, God meaning—apart from God as revealed in the cross of Jesus: through the ecstasy of alcohol and drugs, through the ecstasy of recreational sex, though the ecstasy of crowds. {“sex, drugs and rock-n-roll?”?} Church leaders frequently warn against the drugs and the sex, but, at […]
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One reason for giving that is not the case here is – we have extra money that we don’t know what to do with. Maybe that’s the reason Bill Gates gives to charity, but not anybody I know. You’ve heard of DINKS? Demographers refer to married couples who have “dual-income, no kids” as DINKS. Rich […]
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Problems with the Lottery Maybe we could better see the odds if it was actual people – 300 million people – the population of CA, all trying to get through a door that will only admit 1. Dave Ramsey: “the lottery is a tax on the poor and people who can’t do math.” It’s Gambling. […]
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[From Dww-work]… GOD’S CALL TO LEN TANG A decade ago, I was working in Silicon Valley for Oracle Corporation, the world’s second largest software company next to Microsoft. At Oracle, on top of paying me $40 an hour, they stocked the fridges full of free drinks all day long, provided a free world-class gym to […]
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The Paradox of Our Time in History is that we spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less. We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; more medicine, but less wellness. We read too little, watch TV too much and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our […]
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http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2011/03/14/millionaires-need-7-5-million-to-feel-wealthy/ The definition of “wealthy” is a moving target, depending on the economy and prevailing politics. To some in the White House, a salary of $250,000 a year is wealthy, to others, it’s barely a living wage. Everett Collection But millionaires have their own benchmarks. According to a Fidelity Investments survey of more than 1,000 […]