Sometimes a girl's gotta have some chocolate!
One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them.
The best thing I have are 5 percent bonds from 1780, denominated from $1 to $20. As far as I can tell, they are obligations from the United States of America, so I should be able to walk down to the Federal Reserve and redeem the uncanceled ones. With 217 years of accrued interest, for a $20 bond, that's about $800,000.
There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains) and Bush the Elder.
There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.
Life insurance in America has traditionally been dominated by mutual insurers. Twelve of the fifteen largest life insurers are mutuals.
Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.
Do not remove the kinks from your hair--remove them from your brain.
Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.
There's no one in Israel who appreciates more than me the importance of American support for Israel.
When I started Fool's Gold and producing consistent records that were like electro beats with rapping on it that was experimental and weird. I made a mixtape called Dirty South Dance where I put rap vocals over dance music. That was literally an experiment. Now all these rappers are rapping on dance music. This is something I've been trying to build for a while.