“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.” - Warren Buffett
It is my belief that a vast majority of the economic struggles we are experiencing today have been brought on by poor habits and a disregard to the fundamental laws of money. The NY Times reported that “For decades — from the 1950s through the 1980s — Americans spent about 91 percent of their income, on average, and put away the rest. In the last few years, they have spent close to 99 percent and saved only about 1 percent.” Recent government data shows the personal savings rate has been negative for the last two years. At some point the merri-go-round has to stop.
- Gold cometh gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by not less than one-tenth of his earnings to create an estate for his future and that of his family
- Gold laboreth diligently and contentedly for the wise owner who finds for it profitable employment, multiplying even as the flocks of the field.
- Gold clingeth to the protection of the cautious owner who invests it under the advice of men wise in its handling.
- Gold slippeth away from the man who invests it in businesses or purposes with which he is not familiar or which are not approved by those skilled in its keep
- Gold flees the man who would force it to impossible earnings or who followeth the alluring advice of tricksters and schemers or who trusts it to his own inexperience and romantic desires in investment
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