Some outlandish rules for making money

Never spend as much as you earn. The smaller your expenditures are in proportion to your earnings the sooner you will become rich.

If you're succeeding in anything you are doing, keep it to yourself, else you gather competitors all around you.

It is more blessed to pay wages than to accept them.

It is far more important to learn what not to do than what to do. You can learn this precious lesson in two ways, the first of which and most inspired is by your own mistakes, the second is by observing the mistakes of others.

There are two cardinal sins in the economic world. One is giving something for nothing, and the other is getting something for nothing. The latter is more serious.

If you begin with prayer, you can think more clearly and make fewer stupid mistakes.

Learn how to take your losses quickly and cleanly. Don't expect to be right all the time. If you have made a mistake, cut your losses as quickly as possible.