Quotes About Windfalls

As we discussed in Chapter 1, the path to wealth necessitates certain sacrifices. One of the most significant sacrifices involves diverting windfalls, such as bonuses or unexpected monetary gains, away from immediate luxuries and into savings or investments.

What happens during recessions, is you have less windfalls just helping you cover mistakes. You have to be more careful about not making mistakes.

Noble Savage. Positive or negative, in both images Indians lacked what social scientists call agency—they were not actors in their own right, but passive recipients of whatever windfalls or disasters happenstance put in their way.

Weeding the peony hedge I hear the windfalls in the orchard; hear them strike the ground, hear them strike against branches as they fall to the ground. The immemorial smell of apples, old as the sea. Mary makes jelly. Up from the kitchen, up the stairs and into all the rooms comes the smell of apples.