17 connected korrents · 14 moments from 7 Sept 2010 to 28 Sept 2026.
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There may be an income past which the miseries left, perhaps heartbreak, bereavement or depression, are ones more money does not ease
Last stated 1 Mar 2023 · 4 years ago
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Daniel Kahneman
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Low income makes the emotional pain of misfortunes such as divorce, ill health and being alone worse
Last stated 7 Sept 2010 · 16 years ago
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Daniel Kahneman
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Above a certain level of stable income, emotional well-being seems to be limited by temperament and life circumstances rather than money
Last stated 7 Sept 2010 · 16 years ago
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Daniel Kahneman
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High income buys satisfaction with life but not happiness, while low income goes with both a worse life evaluation and worse emotions
Last stated 7 Sept 2010 · 16 years ago
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Daniel Kahneman
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Buying beyond what you can comfortably afford leaves people financially weaker and stuck living paycheck to paycheck.
Last stated 30 Jul 2026 · 2 months ago
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JL Collins
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The point of money is what it can earn, not what it can buy.
Last stated 3 Mar 2026 · 7 months ago
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JL Collins
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Good economic times tend to produce bad financial ideas, while bad times produce good ones.
Last stated 14 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago
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Jason Zweig
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Wealth can lead to isolation.
Last stated 28 Sept 2026 · 5 days ago
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Pieter Levels
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Happiness levels off past a certain income only for the least happy; among happier people it keeps rising with income, fastest for the happiest
Last stated 1 Mar 2023 · 4 years ago
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Daniel Kahneman
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Same subject: stock market
A "good business" now means one that can display quarter-on-quarter stock growth, not one that makes good products at a fair price.
Last stated 21 May 2025 · a year ago
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Ed Zitron
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Same subject: stock market
A high, stable dividend yield gives a stock's valuation a downside floor that growth stocks without dividends lack.
Last stated 3 Mar 2026 · 7 months ago
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Sanjay Bakshi
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Same subject: stock market
A society's prosperity comes from its productivity, not from the financial system or stock market.
Last stated 25 Sept 2026 · a week ago
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Mr. Money Mustache
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Same subject: venture capital
A first-time founder has an advantage over a repeat winner, because past success makes it too easy to raise money and hire against a big vision before there is product-market fit.
Last stated 14 Jun 2026 · 4 months ago
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Mark Pincus
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Same subject: venture capital
A founder should take half the valuation if it buys all of the control, because the right to be wrong in your own way is what founding was for.
Last stated 2 Jun 2026 · 4 months ago
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Mark Pincus
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Same subject: venture capital
About 5% is the most common final ownership stake for the founder of a VC-funded startup that works out.
Last stated 18 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago
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Pieter Levels
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Same subject: crypto
A tracing requirement in an encrypted messenger gives up the confidentiality of who sent what, which is the part that protects the sender.
Last stated 1 Aug 2021 · 5 years ago
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Matthew Green
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Same subject: crypto
Bitcoin creates more upside and downside than traditional money because it makes users power users with no system administrator to fall back on.
Last stated 12 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago
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Balaji Srinivasan
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Same subject: crypto
Bitcoin's use as a medium of exchange will only grow at scale if it solves problems for spenders or recipients better than existing alternatives.
Last stated 6 Jul 2025 · a year ago
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Lyn Alden