Category: Personal Finance

Marcus Aurelius marble bust

The Stoic Investor

People misread Stoicism as a philosophy of resignation, as if its ideal investor were a monk serenely indifferent to returns….

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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, attributed to Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Don’t Blow Up

Most money advice is about how to win: which stocks to buy, which career moves pay, which habits compound. Winning…

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Key Lessons from George S. Clason’s “The Richest Man in Babylon”

George S. Clason wrote “The Richest Man in Babylon” in 1926 and the book’s lessons and insights on personal finance…

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Envy – The Most Unproductive Sin

“Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy. The idea of caring that someone…

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You Don’t Have to Make It Back the Way You Lost It – Warren Buffett

“You don’t have to make money back the same way you lost it. A stock doesn’t know you own it.”…

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Make Friends with the Eminent Dead – Charlie Munger

“I am a biography nut myself. And I think when you’re trying to teach the great concepts that work, it…

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Accounting Knowledge Needed – Scott Adams

“Accounting is part of the vocabulary of business, and if you don’t understand it on a concept level, the world…

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