Three Ways to Get Paid – Jason Zweig
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July 20, 2018
Three Ways to Get Paid
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My father , who died in 1981, was an inexhaustible font of wisdom and wit. I don’t know when he told me this particular three-part rule, but I’ve never forgotten it. I tweeted it three years ago, but people keep asking for it in one place, so here it is.
There are three ways to make a living:
1) Lie to people who want to be lied to, and you’ll get rich.
2) Tell the truth to those who want the truth, and you’ll make a living.
3) Tell the truth to those who want to be lied to, and you’ll go broke.
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Further reading
Jason Zweig, Your Money and Your Brain
Jason Zweig, The Devil’s Financial Dictionary
Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor
Jason Zweig, The Little Book of Safe Money
Saving Investors from Themselves
What I Read and Why
A Long Chat with Peter L. Bernstein
In Memory of My Father: By and For My Father
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