The 5 money-tree seedlings are rental systems, computer systems, content systems, distribution systems, and human-resource systems. - M.J. DeMarco

All events of wealth are precluded by process, a backstory of trial, risk, hard work, and sacrifice. If you try to skip process, you’ll never experience events.

Compound interest and a job have the same disease: the sinful and voracious consumption of your time while forsaking control. Both variables within the Slowlane wealth equation are anchored by time — time traded in a job and time traded in market investments. Time becomes the linchpin for wealth that congenitally ties to the mathematical handicaps of mortality: 24 hours in a day and a 50-year work-life expectancy.

(M)ediocre, (O)bedient, (D)ependent, (E)ntertained, and (L)ifeless and