Quotes from Jonathan Clements

Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it to the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money.

If you want to see the greatest threat to your financial future, go home and take a look in the mirror.

Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money.

In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible contradicts itself.

Natural science in England, as Darwin already knew to his cost, was still the purview of Christian scholars. But here was a question that Darwin found compelling: if God had created all the creatures of the world, what possible reason could there be for the variations found in the Galápagos?

Fixation on the 'first' in any form or content is often less instructive then a general sense of its 'trended change' – which is to say as part of an overall transformation of practices and conditions, generally in answer to shifts in technology or market perceptions.

In what appears to have been an unplanned quip, Wilberforce asked Huxley if he thought he was descended from an ape on his father's or mother's side. Huxley retorted that he would rather have simian relatives than claim kinship with a man who used his charisma and authority to quash free debate.

His father was killed when he was only six years old.

I am a huge, huge, huge fan of index funds. They are the investor's best friend and Wall Street's worst nightmare.