M.J. DeMarco Quotes

about jobs, bosses, or unpaid electric bills. Freedom is fantastic. Yet my lifestyle is not “normal.” Like wealth, society, through its “Get Rich Slow” mandates, has defined “normal” for you. Normal is waking at 6 a.m., working eight hours at a tolerated job Monday through Friday, save 10%, and repeat for 50 years. Normal is to buy everything on credit. Normal is to believe the illusion that trusting Wall Street and their cohorts will make you rich. Normal is to believe that a faster car and a bigger house will make you happy. You’re conditioned to accept normal based on society’s corrupted definition of wealth, and because of it, normal itself is corrupted. Normal is modern-day slavery.

You see, if you’re too plumply entertained in hyperrealistic distraction, you’re no threat — no threat to the paradigms and certainly no threat to the meat grinder awaiting. Just sit back, relax, and focus on your movie because this train is leaving.

El dinero te compra la libertad de ver crecer a tus hijos. El dinero te compra la libertad de perseguir tus sueños más locos. El dinero te compra la libertad de efectuar una contribución especial al mundo. El dinero te compra la libertad de construir y fortalecer tus relaciones. El dinero te compra la libertad de hacer lo que amas, sin que la validación financiera forme parte de la ecuación.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows. — Michael Landon

If you aren’t where you want to be, the problem is your choices.

No one willingly jumps into boiling water; we become suckers to the scheme by comfortably playing in lukewarm water while the heat slowly rises, optimally while showing the latest Hollywood movie while promising free popcorn.

Someone who earns $2 million a year is susceptible to the same Sidewalking pitfalls as someone who earns $20,000! Lack of financial discipline is pitted on the Sidewalk, and it doesn’t care what you earn or drive. Financial discipline is blind to income.

During a visit to the county landfill, I parked my truck in front of a junk heap and stared. As I meditated on the garbage piled as high as a demolished apartment building, it struck me that everything in this gigantic entangled mass was once new. State-of-the-art. An object of want. There were BBQ grills, bikes, toys, lawn furniture, stoves, picture frames, wine racks; it was a graveyard of past desires, a swollen scrap heap of residually accumulated consumption. Then I thought: Someone once opened their wallet, swiped a credit card, and bought this stuff. And now, here it lies as worthless junk, while its debt probably remains.

The problem with looking wealthy versus being wealthy is that the former is easy while the latter is not.

Good advice comes from the guy who scores all the touchdowns — not the guy shut out in the fourth quarter! The best quarterbacking advice comes from Peyton Manning, not MJ DeMarco.

உங்களுடைய வருவாயின்மீது உங்களுக்குக் கட்டுப்பாடு இல்லையென்றால், உங்களுடைய பொருளாதாரத் திட்டத்தின்மீதும் உங்களுக்குக் கட்டுப்பாடு எதுவும் இருக்காது.

Their wealth comes from your belief.

Wealth eludes most people because they are preoccupied with events while disregarding process. Without process, there is no event. Take a moment and reread that. Process makes millionaires, and the events you see and hear are the results of that process. For our chef, the cooking is the process, while the meal is the event.

Just as there are greedy rich people, there are greedy poor people. Rich people don’t have a monopoly on greed or evilness — the human species does.

if confiscating 100 percent of your economic output constitutes slavery, at which point does it cease to be slavery? 80 percent? 50 percent? 39.6 percent?