Sublime

four factors determine your value in the marketplace: supply, demand, quality, and quantity. In my experience, the factor that

Investor Bill Mann once wrote: “There is no faster way to feel rich than to spend lots of money on really nice things. But the way to be rich is to spend money you have, and to not spend money you don’t have. It’s really that simple.”

He didn’t think about money as merely a means to go buy stuff at the mall, the way most people do. He thought of money as a way to keep score. He could just as easily have used pebbles to keep count. His emotional attachment to dollars and cents appeared nonexistent.

The best measure of wealth is what you have minus what you want. (By this measure, some billionaires are broke.)

Yes, if you earn hundreds of thousands of dollars every year, you may have a few additional options. But the real “rich people” tax benefits begin when you’re earning millions of dollars from your existing investments.