“If you’re not yet wealthy but want to be someday, never purchase a home that requires a mortgage that is more than twice your household’s total annual realized income.”
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness.Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery”
“Multiply your age times your realized pretax annual household income from all sources except inheritances. Divide by ten. This, less any inherited wealth, is what your net worth should be.”
“If you are going to buy, a prudent rule of thumb is not to carry a mortgage greater than two years' income.”
“Tad socked him. Hard. Twice. Someday the bad guys would realize monologues were a bad thing.”
“No one was more surprised than I to realize that my newfound freedom had been purchased by giving up on eternity and settling for hell.”