Daniel Levitin Quotes

The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.

If one committee controlled your entire budget, I think you might make some effort to build up personal relationships. I think it is a no-brainer.

For many people, being asked to solve their own retirement savings problems is like being asked to build their own cars.

The quantity of a man's wealth will not last long if his generous nature is not balanced with the size of his property.

There is a time for weighing evidence and a time for acting. And if there's one thing I've learned throughout my work in finance, government, and conservation, it is to act before problems become too big to manage.

While conventional wisdom has traditionally sided against borrowing from retirement savings, sentiment has shifted toward borrowing from one's own assets with the realization that other forms of credit come at a much higher cost and often are not even available to borrowers with limited means and urgent needs.

There's certain circumstances, there's certain situations, there's certain decisions that have to be made based upon the business and you can't take that personal.

There are so many things on Twitter, so many mentions, it's hard to get through all of them.

You can survive your income falling if it's not dramatic. Your income can decrease for a long time before you start living beyond your means.

I've scaled back my involvement with Twitter; it's too easy to get dragged into an argument.

When 60 - 70 percent of all interpersonal conversations and relationships exist through text messaging or social media, it's hard to get advice from a parent who didn't grow up in that world.

The next generation is going to have to understand that Social Security is just one leg of a stool. We need to actually bring back that savings incentive, and the only way you're going to be able to do that is if you have a job.

Why can't modern tech companies both grow and turn a profit at the same time?

I have no interest in Twitter or Twotter or Twatter. It would never occur to me to use it. People who Tweet during programmes are always asking, 'What happened then?' If you're bloody Twittering away all the time, you miss what is actually going on.

The Pentagon should use data to guide financial decision-making.

I think if you have a big enough wallet you can solve anything but the key is to solve it with the least amount of expenditure.

I think everybody in the future has stopped talking to each other and we all just use emojis.

We all think we are connected to the world now, but we are not talking to our neighbours any more.

I'm a firm believer in... just because these guys are professional athletes or whatever, everybody's going to have an opinion on something, and not everybody's going to get along. I've had my words with fans on Twitter too.

That's why I be so careful with my money and always try to invest. I see people who have it all and then lose it.

The best doctor, if you're sick, may not be the one that shares your faith. We found that out to be true at Liberty with the years of struggles with the accountants and lawyers we brought in and the financial management.

I don't get Twitter or social media. I really don't understand it or read it. I see it as a distraction.

Social media is not the place to work out your problems with people.

People understand that they can spend their money better than the government can.

It doesn't matter how big of a company you have: I always tell people that you are one job away from being broke. And if you don't live that way, you'll be broke.