Quotes About Security

We can only admire others if we have a sense of our own worthiness, and a developing sense of security about our own creative energies.

As Smith put it: "Every individual . . . neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it . . . he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention."5

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I concluded by saying that the SEALs in that room truly gave meaning to George Orwell's observation that people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. page 546

Quickly filling those information gaps and protecting the country from another attack became the sole preoccupation of the president and his senior team. Any obstacle—legal, bureaucratic, financial, or international—to accomplishing those objectives had to be overcome.

In 2008, the average size of an IED was ten kilograms; by early 2010, it was three times that; in 2008, 10 percent had been over seventy-five kilograms, and that number too had nearly tripled by 2010. A growing source of explosives for the IEDs was a common fertilizer, ammonium nitrate, which was trucked in from Pakistan. We had to slow that flow.

Intelligence solves problems and produces money. Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.

You will never know true freedom until you achieve financial freedom.

A job is only a short-term solution to a long-term problem.

The more security you seek, the less freedom you have. The people with the most security are in jail. That is why it is called 'maximum security.

He said it was better to work years at creating an asset rather than to spend your life working hard for money to create someone else's asset.

To live a life dictated by the size of a paycheck is not really living a life. Thinking that a job makes you secure is lying to yourself. That's cruel, and that's the trap I want you to avoid.

Have you ever wondered where the idea of retirement at the age of 65 came from? I'll tell you where: Otto von Bismarck, the president of Prussia, in 1889. Actually, Bismarck's government: At the time, the life expectancy of the average Prussian was about 45. Today, so many are living well into their 80s and 90s that the same promise might well bankrupt the federal government within the next generation.

The fear of losing money is real. Everyone has it. Even the rich. But it's not having fear that is the problem.

Wealth is a person's ability to survive so many number of days forward—or, if I stopped working today, how long could I survive? Unlike

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When it comes to money, most people want to play it safe and feel secure. So passion does not direct them. Fear does.

The problem with "secure" investments is that they are often sanitized, that is, made so safe that the gains are less. Most

true learning takes energy, passion, and a burning desire. Anger is a big part of that formula, for passion is anger and love combined. When it comes to money, most people want to play it safe and feel secure. So passion does not direct them. Fear does.

Many losers bet only on sure things such as job security, a steady paycheck, a guaranteed pension, and interest from a bank account.

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He knew I was venturing out into the world without any guarantees of security.

Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.

Mucha gente tiene problemas financieros porque permite que sus emociones controlen su vida. En lugar de enfrentar sus miedos, se esconden de ellos. Así como muchos empleados se ocultan bajo el cobijo del cheque constante y el empleo seguro.