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Catching Up Part X

A Joe Mazzello x Reader Fic!

Summary: Reader is a writer for an entertainment news network and after Joe comes in to do an interview, they reconnect. Unexpectedly, they’re having a child together.  

Word Count: 2.8K

A/N: Sorry this took so long! I’ve been so busy with requests! But I’m really dedicated to this story and I can’t wait for y’all to see how it ends! We’re getting close now!

Tag List: @crazylittlethingcalledobsession @jennyggggrrr @somethinginthewayiam, @grandaddy-roger-trash, @rogerloveshiscar, @hopefully-aesthetically-pleasing, @danamaleksworld, @mrsmazzello, @reedusteinrambles, @rexorangecouny, @caborhapch, @kurt-nightcrawler, @7-seas-of-fat-bottomed-girls, @queendeakyy, @hotttspace, @anxious-diabetic, @someone-get-a-medic, @psychosupernatural, @lizvxx

Let me know if you’d like to be added! I think this story is going to have two more parts and an epilogue!

Part I  Part II  Part III  Part IV  Part V Part VI  Part VII  Part VIII  Part IX

Part X here we go!!!

Joe got his castmates on skype to tell them the big news. Rami, Gwilym, and Lucy were in Chicago. Allen was in London. Ben was in Los Angeles. But all of them knew that it was the day, and they had already arranged a time for Joe to call when they could all answer. You and Joe were on your laptop at your apartment, grinning like crazy at each other and at your friends. They looked eagerly at the two of you.

“So,” said Rami. “Boy or girl?”

You and Joe looked at each other and then back at them.

“It’s a boy!” you cried in unison.

They all clapped and shouted their congratulations. You held up the latest sonogram and they absolutely fawned over it.

“He’s beautiful!” Lucy cooed.

“What are you gonna call him?” asked Ben.

“I thought I told you,” said Joe. “Joseph Francis Mazzello IV.”

“I mean, yeah, but you’re already Joe,” Ben said. “What’s his nickname gonna be?”

“Joey?” Gwilym guessed.

“I call him Joey,” you said, pointing to Joe.

“We could both be Joey,” Joe said.

“That might get confusing,” Allen added.

“Whatever we call him will come naturally, I think,” you said. “He might even tell us what he wants to be called.”

“That’s true,” Joe said.

You chatted with them for a little longer, and they caught you and Joe up on what was going on in their lives. It was nice to hear from them all. The only one you hadn’t met in person was Allen, but he was very nice. When they all had to go, you hung up. You sighed and looked at Joe, happier than you had been in a long time.

“So, what would you say to a round of destressing?” he teased, leaning over to kiss you.

“Is that what we’re calling it now?” you returned, smirking.

“It’s just doctor’s orders,” he said.

“Well, I can’t very well say no to that,” you said, kissing him again.

Giggling, you made your way to the bedroom to celebrate.

The following weeks were mostly focused on the move. You and Joe hired movers since you were well into your second trimester and it wasn’t safe for you to lift anything. It made you feel incredibly useless throughout the process. Joe insisted you were carrying the most precious piece of your home, and therefore had no obligation to move furniture or boxes.

On the official moving day, which ended up being late September, you spent time with Christy while Joe oversaw the moving process. It was nice to get quality time with her and celebrate your friendship together before you both took steps you knew meant less time for each other. Several times throughout the day, you got a little emotional thinking about it. As much as you loved Joe, you were going to miss Christy dearly. You were walking together in Central Park when you had to stop and rest.

“Sorry,” you said as you took a seat on a bench. “I’m feeling a little nauseous.”

“Ice cream didn’t agree with little Joey?” she wondered.

You shook your head. “I dunno. I’m still having a lot of nausea. Not as much as the first trimester, but enough to be annoyed.”

“Is that normal?” she asked.

“I have no idea,” you said with a shrug. “Pregnancy is so fucking weird I figure there’s no ‘normal’ way, y’know?”

“I guess that’s fair,” she chuckled.

“According to Google I shouldn’t worry,” you said. “It’s probably just that my hormones are going crazy right now.”

“It just sucks you can’t take anything,” she said.

“Yeah,” you agreed. “I get headaches a lot too, so it’s doubly awful.”

“God, I’m never getting pregnant,” she joked.

“Never say never,” you returned. “Don’t forget we weren’t trying for Joey here.”

She laughed. “I’m gonna be super careful to not get pregnant,” she corrected.

When you were feeling better, you began walking again. You told her about all the things you and Joe had done to prepare the house and what you’d gotten for the nursery. She was honestly thrilled for you and couldn’t wait to see it.

Joe picked you up from the park, looking sweaty and exhausted from a whole day of moving. After saying goodbye to Christy, you slid into the passenger seat, cradling your belly in one hand as you settled in. Joe kissed your cheek.

“You look sexy,” you joked, wiping his hair off his soaked forehead.

He smiled. “The house is almost done. We just need to unpack clothes, but I’ve got stuff for us to wear tonight.”

“Okay, we can take care of that tomorrow,” you said. “I can’t wait to see it.”

It looked much like you had imagined it would over the weeks. You and Joe had picked out everything together, and it really felt like yours. This was the Mazzello home. Joe wrapped an arm around your shoulders as you walked through it together. There were boxes of clothes, and some kitchen things that needed to be put away, but that was all part of moving.

“Welcome home,” Joe said.

You grinned. “It’s perfect.”

That evening, after you and Joe ordered a pizza and had that for dinner, you settled into bed pretty early. For the first night in many, you didn’t make love because he was so tired. You didn’t push because your stomach still felt a little queasy and you didn’t feel super sexy. Just as you leaned back against your pillows and cracked open a book, your phone rang.

“Who’s that?” Joe mumbled beside you, half asleep already.

“It’s Christy,” you said, and picked up. “Hey, sweetie. What’s up?”

“I just got our mail,” she said. “You’ve got a letter from Nick.”

“What?” you gasped. “Can you bring it over? We’re already in bed.”

She scoffed. “Really? You leave our apartment for one day and you’re already a grandmother?”

“We’re lame and tired,” you returned, trying to joke but worry was too strong in your heart. “Can you just bring it?”

“Yeah,” she agreed, and hung up. You knew she was already on the way.

“What’s up?” Joe asked.

“Nothing, baby,” you assured him, kissing his cheek. “Go to sleep. I just left a few things at the apartment.”

He muttered something else, but you didn’t really take it in. You got up, put on sweatpants and went downstairs to wait for Christy. The fifteen minute trip felt like hours when she was bringing you word from Nick. You hoped this meant he was ready to take a plea bargain and you wouldn’t have to go to court again.

When she arrived, you opened the door before she could knock. She had the letter and a few other things for you, but you just tossed them on the counter as you turned the kitchen light on. You eagerly ripped the letter open and pulled it out, your eyes frantically scanning the page. Your mouth fell open at what you read.

“What?” Christy asked. “What did he say?”

“What did who say?” Joe added as he came into the room. “What’s going on?”

“Nick wrote me from jail,” you told him.

“Why’d you say it was nothing?” he demanded.

“I wanted you to rest!” you insisted. “Why are you up?”

“I don’t sleep well without you next to me,” he said.

You didn’t have time to admire that sentiment. Christy let out a frustrated groan.

“You two are adorable, but we don’t have time for this!” she cried. “Y/N, what did Nick say?”

They both had curious eyes on you as you read the words on the page once more, cementing their reality in your head.

“He wants to see me,” you told them. “He says he’ll take the plea bargain but only if I come and talk to him. But he doesn’t say what it’s about.”

“This feels slimy,” Christy said. “Like a trap.”

“He can’t hurt me,” you said. “It’s all supervised.”

“Y/N, are seriously considering going?” Joe questioned.

“Of course,” you said. “If I can end this sooner, I want to take the opportunity.”

“But if you can get him in court -” Christy began but you cut her off.

“We don’t know that for sure,” you said. “And the court date sucks because Joe’s gonna be in London for the BoRhap premiere and you’re going to be in Florida with your boyfriend. I’d have to go alone.”

“What if he’s lying?” Joe asked. “I’m with Christy, I think he just wants to try and intimidate you again.”

“Well, so what if it is?” you said. “Then we’ll go about it the original plan. I don’t see what harm it can do.”

“It could cause you more stress, and the doctor said to do things that do the opposite of that,” he reminded you.

“It could also relieve the stress,” you argued. “Because then I won’t be so scared about going alone to court.”

“Why do you want to go so bad?” he questioned.

“All the reasons I’ve just said!” you returned. “Aren’t you listening to me?”

“I just don’t understand why you’re giving him the satisfaction,” he said, heaving a sigh. “This puts all the power in his hands.”

“It’s not about having power, it’s about finishing this,” you said. “I want to move on from him, and the sooner the better. A whole month before the court date.”

“Y/N, you can’t do this,” he said. “I’m gonna have to put my foot down.”

Your mouth fell open and you blinked at him for several moments. “What the fuck did you just say to me?”

“Oh my God, run, Joe,” Christy muttered to him.

“I said I’m putting my foot down,” he repeated. “No.”

“You know if you’re gonna keep speaking to me like that, you might as well get me a chew toy,” you spat.

“I didn’t mean -”

You cut across him. “Oh, didn’t you? Because that’s how you talk to dogs and badly behaved children, but definitely not your girlfriend who is five months pregnant with your child.”

“I’m sorry,” he said, looking down.

“Apology accepted,” you said. “I love you and value your opinion, Joe, and you don’t always have to agree with me. But you will treat me with some goddamn respect.”

“Jesus, Y/N, use a dick,” Christy breathed.

“You’re right,” he conceded, ignoring your friend. “Again, I’m sorry. It’s been a long day, and I just worry about you. That’s all.”

“I don’t want to talk about this anymore,” you said with a sigh. “I’m going to see Nick. And you can come with me or not, but I’m going.”

“I’ll come with you,” he said. “Doesn’t mean I think it’s right, but I don’t want you to go alone.”

When you had everything arranged to go and see Nick, you found yourself more nervous than you thought you’d be. You tried to think of what you could say to him, but Joe and Christy advised waiting until hearing what he had to say before forming any ideas. Not having anything prepared though made you feel anxious.

The jail he was being held in also made you nervous. The officers there were stern and intimidating, but you figured they had to be with the job they had. You would see Nick in a common area that reminded you of a school cafeteria, but a lot scarier. Nick looked rather pathetic is in uniform, and he’d clearly not gotten any drugs either. His recent bout with withdrawal was written all over his face.

Joe held your hand tightly as you took a deep breath. Nick would also now know that you were pregnant. You’d been careful during the first court date to wear loose clothes and hide your bump. It helped that he hadn’t looked very hard at you. You saw his eyes go wide when he noticed it now. You placed your hand on your bump as you took a seat across from him. Joe remained standing, keeping a hand on your shoulder as he glowered at Nick.

“So,” you said. “What do you want to say?”

“First of all, I want to say I’m sorry, Y/N,” he began. “I’m really sorry for all the pain I’ve caused you.”

“Okay,” you said, your voice stony. “You tried to say that before you broke my phone and wrecked my apartment. You’re gonna have to do better, Nick.”

“I don’t know what came over me there,” he said.

“I do,” you remarked.

“Please, let me finish,” he said, and you got quiet. “I don’t know what came over me. I truly didn’t go there with the intention of hurting you or begging for you back. I went there to ask you for money, and I lied to try and get it from you, I know. I don’t know why you having a boyfriend upset me so much.”

“Did you think there was still hope for us?” you asked.

He looked down at his hands. “Maybe a little. I always thought if I got clean...you might...”

“Forgive you for selling naked photos of me?” you wondered in disbelief. “How could I ever get past that?”

“You’re right, it was stupid,” he admitted. “But I couldn’t help but hold out hope, y’know?”

“This is getting off track,” you said. “Is there anything else you wanted?”

“I just want to know that you forgive me,” he told you. “It’s the only way I’ll be able to face a year in prison.”

You completely hardened as you glared at him. “You wanna know what I faced because of what you did? I was a prisoner in my own head, fearing every fucking camera I came into contact with. I was afraid for my job, for my reputation. I lost friends and family. It affected my relationship with Joe. And then you sent them to him and his friends and God knows who else! I had to start over all the progress I’d made on moving past it! And you want my forgiveness so that you can go to prison and feel okay?”

He sputtered for words.

“I forgive you, Nick,” you said, and he looked at you, wide-eyed. “But not for your sake. I’m forgiving you so I can move on with my own life and focus on this.” You placed your hand on your belly again. “He’s my life now. I’m looking forward, because I can’t look at you anymore.”

Tears welled up in your eyes and your head started to pound. You winced with pain and Joe knelt closer to you.

“You okay?” he asked.

You nodded. “I think so. I’m ready to go now.”

You both looked at Nick and then you spoke again. “Is there anything else? Are you ready to take the plea deal?”

“Yeah,” he said simply. “Just one more thing.”

You looked expectantly at him. He nodded toward your baby bump.

“If I had never gotten into the drugs, do you think that could have been us?”

“No,” you said simply. “It was always going to be me and Joe.”

He nodded, resigned, and you told the guard you were ready. You could feel Nick’s eyes on you as you left, willing you to turn around for one last meaningful look, but you didn’t give it to him. You were ending this on your terms. And that meant turning your back to him forever and pressing on with Joe and your son.

When you exited the prison, you felt so free. Joe looked hard at you. You’d gotten a little emotional inside, but that was gone now. Relief washed over you like a wave.

“Are you sure you’re alright?” he wondered.

“Yeah,” you said, taking his hand as you made your back to your car. You stopped him before you got in, turning him to face you.

“I meant what I said in there,” you said. “It’s me and you now, okay? And little Joey. I’m not worried about anyone from the past. Not when I’ve got you two.”

He kissed you, his hands coming up to cradle your face as his lips claimed yours. This kiss sealed it.

“No more looking back,” he agreed. “I love you, Y/N. I’m sorry I gave you a hard time about this.”

“I love you too,” you said. “And don’t worry about it. I understand why, and it makes me love you even more. You still supported me through it. Thank you, Joe.”

“You feel good about everything?” he asked.

“I do,” you assured him. “It feels like closure.”

He pulled you into a hug. “Good.”

You broke away and you both climbed into the car.

“You know what this means?” you said eagerly as he started to drive back to the house.

“No, what?” he wondered.

“We can just be excited about the premiere of Bohemian Rhapsody!” you squealed. “Yay!”

He laughed. “And then Joey’s gonna get here!”

“I know!” you cried. “We’ve got so much to look forward to!”

[rosie-rps]

i. vivian song / 21 / stellar member + new solo artist / jennie kim

01. the one thing that anyone who has met vivi says about her: she was born to be a star. 02. the regina george of stellar. competitive. type a. insecure as hell. and the main everything. 03. her world crumbled down when a. cady heron of the group started receiving more attention than her? how dare she? vivi made her??? and b. when her boyfriend, the justin to her selena, cheated on her and she found out when it was blasted on twitter? 04. cue a very public breakup with her boyfriend and a fall out with stellar. 05. now the group is on “”hiatus”” that no one is admitting to, she just released a hit album thx. and she’s getting linked to an upcoming star and the public loves it. life is getting better. so why can’t she stop googling her ex?? connections: 01. the last member of stellar, cady heron!!!! 02. her fans, her antis, anyone and everyone?? she’s been in the industry for so long, you’ve bound to have hard one of her or stellar’s songs by now 03. other musicians who she is collabing with, especially on her newest album after thx. honestly, she’s really passionate about helping other musicians out and really expanding her genres and taking risks !! so anything go e s. 04. the new star that’s gaining a lot of attention and who is in this fake dating plot with her to boost both her album sales and whatever project that he is part of!!!

ii. kevin suh / 25 / former doctorate student, NORTH member / ong seongwoo 

01. a former doctorate student in classical guitar with hopes and dreams of becoming a professor auditioned on a small network’s audition program dare and his life got turned upside down and it’s. fucking. great. 02. part of NORTH. america’s national boy band. an absolute sensation. and he really is hating every minute of it. 03. living with one foot in the celebrity world and one foot so desperate for nothing to change really affected him ( he and the girlfriend who he was going to propose to broke up, their relationship couldn’t handle it ). 04. the more that he wants his privacy, the more that it seems like all of his information and his whole life is being shared with the nation. and it’s really affecting him. and he isn’t afraid to lash out and let his feelings be known ( much to the dismay of his agency ). 05. absolutely heartbroken. absolutely lonely. absolutely a ticking time bomb. connections: 01. the last 2 members of north!!! 02. fellow contestants who weren’t quite as lucky? people who had really rooted for him and voted for him from the start !!! 03. people from his life when he was just normal -- former friends, fellow musicians, and especially his ex-gf. please, i need the pain and the heartbreak ): 04. people in the industry for him to get into twitter feuds with and to really showcase his unhappiness 05. and finally fellow authentic musicians and people he will slowly open up to and will help him feel like he belongs? others who have gone through the same struggle as him and want to throw him a lifeline? just more connections !!

iii. olivia grimm / 22 / reality tv star, businesswomen / bridget satterlee

01. the ugly duckling on the hit reality tv series: the grimms who now turned into a beautiful swan. the youngest ““self-made”“ billionaire. founder and owner of LIVFITS. 02. she had always dabbled in the beauty vlogging, and it was a large part of how she had gotten famous, away from the reality show. she’s been collaborating with other beauty stars on make up and really expanding, but a lot of her friendships may be fake just because she does really give artists recognition for being associated with her 👀 03. incredibly sweet but introverted, she has a strong desire wants to be liked by others, olivia is over-generous oftentimes gets attached to others too easily and gives away her trust far too much!! really leading her to get used and fuels a lot of the #cancel culture that originated from the show!! 04. despite being a self-proclaimed snapchat story queen olivia values her privacy and definitely goes out of her way to get caught in public as infrequently as possible, preferring to be holed up in her home or to travel to other's private residences !!  05. i mean her dirty laundry is still really aired out in the press so ??? idk that’s how she’s famous but she doesn’t really like it, so who knows...... what a hypocrite lol connections: 01. her four other older siblings!! a messy family with a show based off of the kardashians. they get into arguments and fight but they’re each other’s best friends at the end of the day and they love each other. 02. a young hollywood squad !! especially of those who were formerly the underdog and/or overlooked, but now it’s their redemption. it’s their era. and they are owning it. 03. others in the beauty/fashion industry. she was formerly cast aside for not being authentic and getting a leg up, but is slowly gaining their respect!! so people to do vlogs with and collabs, and honestly something like the james x tati drama???? 04. some exes???? she really falls hard and faST but has not a lot of experience???? she thinks sleeping with someone will make them love her so )’: break her heart

iv. poppy velazquez / 26 / yoga instructor, self love influencer / face tbd!

01. poppy is probably my least developed character so if you have some wanted ads i would love to throw her into them!!! 02. she recently moved to la a few years ago and became an instructor at a yoga studio and started a #self love + #self care instagram just to help others out and to keep things for herself!! 03. her instagram started to get pretty popular and so did her yoga classes since she just naturally helped people?? find inner peace and it became a hot spot for celebrities looking to decompress and really centralize in such a high paced lifestyle!! 04. she started getting invited to write columns for blogs and recently landed a book deal to really write about her method of self-love, self-care, meditation, and yoga and really a lifestyle book for those who need it!!  connections: 01. honestly ?? i don’t have much planned for her so !! anytHING please! 02. other instagram influencers??? people who she previously dated and are now on good terms with??? or people who sees her on the street and vaguely remembers seeing her from somewhere but not really sure where! 03. ooo celebrities who attend her yoga class!! or even other non celebrities who go and are like :o 

[wazm]

kinda lost blog

I just wish to feel genuine joy in my life. I'm so afraid of chasing my goals cos what if I get to where I need to be and it's not exactly what I want. nevermind trying to reach for my goals cos I've been doing that..working every day..trying to bring myself closer to my goals but fail...struggling to sit down and just write music...i can't get myself to do it... I can't get myself to create anything.. I procrastinate the things I'm supposed to do with irrelevant big tasks..trying to distract myself constantly... I just feel empty inside...

what makes my hallow chest even deeper is the fact that all my relationships remind me of the bad decisions I've made..and theyre, not even bad decisions..its just meh...average..nothing worthwhile noting really..combined with abunch of negative outcomes...like he fact that i know a shit ton of people but i have zero real friends...i once had a friend who knew me for more than 7 years but he never exactly knew his boundaries...he’d show up to my house unannounced...id never get space...but at least i still had a friend..id do countless favors for him and never ask him anything in return but giving me space...one time i tried distancing myself from him and when i started to notice, he got so offended...after this happened, we never spoke to months...probs the longest time apart since we’ve been friends...then we kinda rekindled things...and he decided to plan a guys trip to bring us closer together...trip was okay...but ended really bad...he blocked me off everything..games, facebook, whatsapp...everything...he lives up the road from me...but ive never seen him since....idk if its a blessing or a curse...i hope things are okay with him...he wasnt the smartest but he was smart enough to comprehend certain sitautions ive been going through...good enough for me to vent to and console me...thats kinda all i need sometimes...but no more of that...he was kinda my bridge to a group of other friends we had...and after the boys trip it was like i lost everyone..social life took a hard knock...im sorry..just wish you trusted me more...

i tried filling the void by making my gf do things i did with my friends...never went down well...she just seems like someone who never knows how to have fun anymore..we used to have interesting chats..i was so inlove with her, I never saw her flaws...and she taught me this word “resentment”...well its not tht i never saw her flaws...i just chose to ignore them..and told myself that things will get better, and she’ll grow..and change...but i feel like shes been making me more like her since we’ve been dating...i swear i did so much things before her...but we’ve been together so long, i dont even know who that person is anymore...i bet, even if i left her, i wouldnt be able to bounce back...and the odd thing is that, when we started dating almost 5 years ago, i made it our philosphy that we are individuals in a relationship, we are not the relationship but it seems like she wasnt even herself back then and started being me...and now its like, shes nothing without me and my whole life has grown so much onto her, i kinda feel the same in return...just less attached to her since i felt like i was feeding her nucleas...might be exaggerating but homegirl cant initiate anything without me. nevermind choosing a meal when we go out, she cant even make a plan without needing 90% input from my side...and thats how most things are between us...if shes upset, ill fix it...risk my life and beyond to fix it...physically have done this many times before...walked from my house to hers at 2am in the morning, through the ghettos, more than a kilometer away..even been gun pointed and got things stolen from me, just to make her feel better when she was upset in the middle of the night...im not expecting that in return but she lits does the bare minimum in return...id be sad, then she be like...awww...im sad you’re sad...done..thats it...she’d lits be like...what can i do to fix things....again wanting my input...i might as well be dating myself...idk why im with this girl anymore...i hurt inside everytime i tell her i love her...cos i just dont anymore...and its been like this for a while...i wish she found this post and decided to leave me..cos i cant leave her...ive broken her heart so many times and told her i wanted to leave but i just end up coming back to her cos im sucha fucking pussy seeking some sort of social acceptence or friendship and i feel like shes all i have rn...not much of a gf hey...but its not like im worth anything either...idk...im so paranoid shes cheated on me in the past cos shes lied to me in the past and told me 3 years later about those lies...you know when someone lies to you and then when you find out about the lies and you ask why’d you do it and shes like...idk...i just feel like its lies ontop of lies...really cant trust her....i wish i had it in me to cheat on her...but i just dont like most females...id be infatuated with someone but would be put off so easily by the slightest thign...things would make so much sense if i was secretly gay but im not...the longer i seem to be in this place, the deeper im digging my grave...i feel like the time with my almost 5 year relationship feels like its getting harder to leave the longer i stay in it....i really dont know what to do...but i feel like i fuck up most of my relationships...not just my romantic one...

my relationship with my parents are just a nightmare...same goes for my other family members...and you know what...i do so much for people...countless favors...countless volunteer jobs...extra miles for people who wont even move an inch for me...but just let me mention this to anyone, then im in the wrong...i just feel like i cant voice any shortcomings to anyone and im made out to be the bad guy for doing this....whether its my parents or my sisters...id do everything for them, and i do everything for them, even things they dont ask me for...but let me raise an opinion that doesnt resonate with them, and it turns into an argument and if i decide to step out before things get sour, im still made out to be the bad guy cos how dare i do something so rude....i just feel like no1 wants to listen to me at all...for my last birthday i tried staying away from my family and decided to work on a few movies with my friends and i had fun, we arent the closes friends but, campus friends...theyre actually in a whole other faculty..so we just barely know eachother but we’ve worked on movies before and thats kinda our history together as friends....so its my birthday and i agreed to work with them on this day...all day..from like 7am until almost 10pm..and my family, not communicating with me, decides to go out for supper for my birthday...and just expects me to leave this project im working on for them...so they invite people to join them for this birthday supper...without having me there...anyways after i finished my day shooting, i was pretty smug about working instead of spending the day with my family...and on the last few moments of my birthday my sister makes a shitty comment, wanting me to shut the fuck up cos she doesnt have the energy to listen to my voice..it really broken my heart, how my whole birthday was spoilt in moments....wish she couldve just waited a tiny bit longer...i wouldve been happy with that..but naa...no1 wants to listen to anything i have to say, let alone have me around in their presence....i just feel like starting a new life somewhere else...and thats kinda what i had planned...

really thought i was going to leave south africa and immigrate to australia to go sound study there...filled in all the paper work...spoke back-and-forth with the uni over there and they extended the communication so long, i thought things were set...seemed like i was so close to getting the big change ive been seeking for so long...but they sent me this stinky ‘ol email with extra modules id have to do and the tuition fees went from $11,000 to $35,000 which is ridiculous as my countries currency isnt australian dollars and is 10 units weaker than theirs...never in my life have i ever felt like money defined my life...lits had my life in limbo cos i was waiting for responses from this people...and when i finally got a response it was too late to apply at the local college...idk what im doing this year...i tried looking for work online, but no response...made ads for work on fiverr...tried upwork, tried quickengig...even rev...all these sites people advertise as quick ways to make money....a bunch of lies...i made $0, 3 weeks going now. nothing. i even invested in making a business logo, wrote descriptions...adjusted my ads multiple times...still...blue ticks from the online work field...i applied for jobs ive seen on indeed and on gumtree and jobfinder....but no response...nothing...blue ticked...ima say luckily im working part-time for this events company and its kinda an opportunity to network with the sound industry but the live sound industry is filled with racist pricks who patronize you when you’ve done the time to learn the work they know...so no work online freelancing, no work applying for work..no work physically meeting people...really makes me feel like this isnt a viable option for me...cant even study locally or internationally anymore...

im just so lost...alone..hurt..wish someone would save me the way ive saved others before..

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He stripped Wall Street of its mystery and rejoined it to Main Street — a mythical or disappearing place, perhaps, but one that is comprehensible to the ordinary American. – Roger Lowenstein • But when that information travels only to a privileged few, when it is used to profit at the expense of the investing public, when that information comes by way of favored access rather than by acumen, insight or diligence, we must ask, ‘Whose interest is really being served?’. – Arthur Levitt Jr • By investing at a discount, Benjamin Graham knew that he was unlikely to experience losses. – Seth Klarman • Chairman Priebus set out on an early and historic political outreach plan which called for investing resources early to build the RNC network well before Election Day. And although the elections are still eight months away, all indications are that the money has been well spent. Our message is getting out to the Hispanic, Asian and African American communities. If we can continue to implement this plan, we will be able to save the country from further policy damages at the hand of President Obama and the Democrats. – Matt Schlapp • China is doing lots of things right. It’s investing in education and R&D, it’s opening up, it’s more cosmopolitan than it’s ever been. I think it’s very likely that China will continue to explode economically and certainly become a superpower. – Amy Chua • Democrats believe we should renew our commitment to creating tax credits for hybrid vehicles, increasing fuel efficiency standards for cars, and investing in ethanol, biofuel, hydrogen fuel cell technology. – Rosa DeLauro • Do you know what investing for the long run but listening to market news everyday is like? It’s like a man walking up a big hill with a yo-yo and keeping his eyes fixed on the yo-yo instead of the hill. – Alan Abelson • Don’t limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded. – Charles R. Schwab • Ethanol reduces our dependence on foreign sources of oil and is an important weapon in the War on Terror. By investing in South Dakota’s ethanol producers, we will strengthen our energy security and create new jobs. – John Thune • For me it’s all about keeping things simple and feeling comfortable in what I am wearing. I prefer investing in classic well-tailored pieces. – Miranda Kerr • For me, being in front of a camera is a matter of practicing and refining your art. I think, if you’re telling a story worth telling, it’s worth investing the time into developing. – Danny Pino • For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously; pleasing and lightly instructing thousands, but gaining none of the prizes, whether of weighty reputation or popular renown, which more fortunate chances, or more pretending modes of investing talent, have given in our day to men of half his merits. – Samuel Laman Blanchard • Generally speaking, investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. Anything that improves your own talents; nobody can tax it or take it away from you. They can run up huge deficits and the dollar can become worth far less. You can have all kinds of things happen. But if you’ve got talent yourself, and you’ve maximized your talent, you’ve got a tremendous asset that can return ten-fold. – Warren Buffett • Growth and value investing are joined at the hip. – Warren Buffett • How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case. – Robert G. Allen • I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages. – Niklaus Wirth • I am investing like a crazy person, mostly in internet start-ups. And I want to invest in Brazil as well, because I am Brazilian and that’s in my heart. – Eduardo Saverin • I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor. – Grace Napolitano • I do a lot of media work, I’ve been investing and I’m involved with real estate. It’s totally different from what I had been doing but I find it challenging and fun. To be honest, I really don’t miss the track. I pretty well accomplished what I set out to do and it was time to move on. – Donovan Bailey • I find it more enjoyable investing time doing what pleases me, rather than wasting precious time attempting to please everyone else. – Greg Reid • I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from school, but from away games or the sports pages, and hooliganism has given me both a taste for sociology and a degree of fieldwork experience. I have learned the value of investing time and emotion in things I cannot control, and of belonging to a community whose aspirations I share completely and uncritically. – Nick Hornby • I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America. – Corrine Brown • I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I could about the subject. – Warren Buffett • I know no better way to show true patriotism and love for one’s country, than investing to create wealth and employment. – Strive Masiyiwa • I learned that a real friendship is not about what you can get, but what you can give. Real friendship is about making sacrifices and investing in people to help them improve their lives. – Eric Thomas • I never buy anything unless I can fill out on a piece of paper my reasons. I may be wrong, but I would know the answer to that …I’m paying $32 billion today for the Coca Cola Company because… If you can’t answer that question, you shouldn’t buy it. If you can answer that question, and you do it a few times, you’ll make a lot of money. – Warren Buffett • I take more jobs when I need more money, if I’m investing in films. I take fewer when I don’t. Or if something really good comes along, I usually find a way to do a good job on it in the time that I’ve got. – John Sayles • I think if you have mandatory carbon caps combined with a trading system, much like we did with sulfur, and if you have a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions, that there’s a package there that’s very, very good. – Newt Gingrich • I think we do not need to send more jobs to low wage countries. I think corporate America has to start investing in this country and create decent paying jobs here. – Hillary Clinton • I was educated to think maybe Brazil works, maybe it doesn’t. But I decided I am going to make this country work for my children. I am investing all my effort now in making Brazil a great country. – Eike Batista • I’ve always said that a wise businessperson will support the ANC… because supporting the ANC means you’re investing very well in your business – Jacob Zuma • If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing. – Warren Buffett • If I were investing in oil and gas stocks, there is one question I would ask CEO’s: What portion of your capital is going to have to go in to stay even – Gwyn Morgan • If investing is entertaining, if you’re having fun, you’re probably not making any money. Good investing is boring. – George Soros • If we assume that there are normal or standard income results to be obtained from investing money in securities, then the role of the adviser can be more readily established. He will use his superior training and experience to protect his clients against mistakes and to make sure that they obtain the results to which their money is entitled. – Benjamin Graham • If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan – or a company like Xerox – then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be very good business. – Anne M. Mulcahy • If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late. – Clayton Christensen • If you have never missed when investing, you haven’t been in there trying. – Venita VanCaspel • If you invested in a very low cost index fund – where you don’t put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years -you’ll do better than 90% of people who start investing at the same time. – Warren Buffett • I’m able to lead my life as well as make a film. My wife and my friends and people around me know that I do tend to distance myself a little bit during the making of a film, but I have to, it’s a natural part of the process for me because you are indulging in the headspace of somebody else, you are investing in the psychology of somebody else and you are becoming somebody else, and so there isn’t enough room for you and that somebody else. – Guy Pearce • I’m standing here saying that those who miss the boat now, will miss it forever. So if you want to be in Africa, think about investing. – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala • In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children’s classrooms and in their future. – Bob Riley • In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard. – Warren Buffett • In my home state of Delaware, we’ve done our homework and worked hard and, as a result, we’ve made great strides in cleaning up our own air pollution. Unfortunately, a number of the upwind states to the west of us have not made the same commitment to reducing harmful pollution by investing in cleaner air. – Thomas Carper • In ourselves, rather than in material nature, lie the true source and life of the beautiful. The human soul is the sun which diffuses light on every side, investing creation with its lovely hues, and calling forth the poetic element that lies hidden in every existing thing. – Giuseppe Mazzini • Investing and connecting are the key factors in turning any intention into reality. – Rhonda Britten • Investing in Chicago property is just Wandas first move into the U.S. real estate market. – Wang Jianlin • Investing in the market without knowing what stage it is in is like selling life insurance to 20 year olds and 80 year olds at the same premium. – Victor Sperandeo • Investing in tomorrow’s technology today is more critical than ever. – Bill Gates • Investing in women’s lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations – and consequently in our own long-term national interests. – Liya Kebede • Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market. – John Maynard Keynes • Investing is far more cumulative [than chess]. So long as you’re sharp, you can do it for as long as you want. – Patrick Wolff • Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don’t do any work. – Peter Lynch • Investing is important, but get debt-free first. That’s what frees up your income so you can win. – Dave Ramsey • Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future. – Warren Buffett • Investing is most intelligent when it is most businesslike. – Benjamin Graham • Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are. – Warren Buffett • Investing is simple, but not easy. – Warren Buffett • Investing is the greatest business in the world because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate; the pitcher throws you General Motors at 47! U.S. Steel at 39! And nobody calls a strike on you. There’s no penalty except opportunity. All day you wait for the pitch you like; then, when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it. – Warren Buffett • Investing is the intersection of economics and psychology. – Seth Klarman • Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas. – Paul Samuelson • Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing – Jessica Livingston • It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations. – Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth • It just seems logical that sticking to investing in only a small number of companies that you understand well, rather than moving down the list to your thirtieth or fiftieth favorite pick, would create a much greater potential to earn above-average investment returns. – Joel Greenblatt • I’ve felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing on Wall Street. When economics is taught by pure academics, watch out. – Mark Skousen • Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. – Sigmund Freud • Let’s hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won’t buy. – Simon Mainwaring • Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac’s talents didn’t extend to investing: He lost a bundle in the South Sea Bubble, explaining later, ‘I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.’ If he had not been traumatized by this loss, Sir Isaac might well have gone on to discover the Fourth Law of Motion: For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases. – Warren Buffett • Money is ultimately not enough compensation for investing your time and energy: there has to be a sense of purpose, meaning and fulfillment. – Dan Miller • Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new. – Bob Parsons • No wonder nobody around the world is nervous about America anymore. No wonder we’re not intimidating our adversaries and they’re running around wild in the world, because they know we’re not investing in our defense anymore. We need to make or military strong, not to wage war, but to avoid war and to bring peace and stability in the world. – Chris Christie • Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something. – Shelley Berkley • Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development – it has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service. – Akio Morita • one of the greatest deterrents to successful investing is the three-letter word ego. – Venita VanCaspel • One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions. – Joshua Waitzkin • One thing I’d like to do is angel investing in small companies. That’s what’s exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks. – Nick D’Aloisio • Our economy is the result of millions of decisions we all make every day about producing, earning, saving, investing, and spending. – Dwight D. Eisenhower • Our government is committed to investing in world-class research networks such as GlycoNet, which will develop new drugs and vaccines to fight diseases that affect millions of Canadians. These investments will improve our quality of life and contribute to the creation of a stronger, more innovative economy and a more prosperous Canada. – Rona Ambrose • People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they’ll stop investing. – Steve Jobs • People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity. – Robert Kiyosaki • Picking the right stocks is one of the hardest parts of investing, and every night on Mad Money, I try to take some of that burden off your shoulders. – Jim Cramer • Please understand, I am not saying that technology is unimportant. I understand that technology is important. But if we are just focusing on technology and investing in an IT manufacturing plant to come up with higher performance processing [chips], we will not succeed. – Satoru Iwata • President Marcos was investing in precious metals long before he entered politics. – Imelda Marcos • Quinn’s First Law of Investing is never to buy anything whose price you can’t follow in the newspapers. An investment without a public marketplace attracts the fabulists the way picnics attract ants. Stock brokers and financial planners can tell you anything they want, because no one really knows what’s true. The First Corollary to Quinn’s First Law states that, even when the price is in the newspapers, you shouldn’t buy anything too complex to explain to the average 12-year-old. – Jane Bryant Quinn • Re-investing in one’s own little moments of insight is very important – Anish Kapoor • So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it – so long as I’m not investing too much capital in these things. – Jackie Cooper • So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country. – Patrick J. Kennedy • Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you’re not in too big a hurry – Warren Buffett • Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing. – Warren Buffett • Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it. – Benjamin Graham • Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others. – John Maynard Keynes • Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it. – Benjamin Graham • Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. – Warren Buffett • The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused grouping together the lofty deeds of a great number of heroes, whose names they have not even deigned to preserve, and investing the single personage of Hercules with them. In our own time the public delight in blending fable with history. In every career of life, in the pursuit of science especially, they enjoy a pleasure in creating Herculeses. – Francois Arago • The art of investing is not about figuring out what has already happened. It’s about anticipating the futureand creating the future that others will read about in The Wall Street Journal. – Joshua Rogers • The big success stories – Facebook, Zynga and Twitter – are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing. – Eric Lefkofsky • The difference between the price we pay for a stock and its liquidation value gives us a margin of safety. This kind of investing is one of the most effective ways of achieving good long term results. – Peter Cundill • The evidence shows that investing in women and girls delivers major benefits for society. An educated woman has healthier children. She is more likely to send them to school. She earns more and invests what she earns in her family. – Jimmy Carter • The game of investing is one of making better predictions about the future than other people. How are you going to do that? One way is to limit your tries to areas of competence. If you try to predict the future of everything, you attempt too much. – Charlie Munger • The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. – Stephen Covey • The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage. – Warren Buffett • The only preparation for prospering in the global economy is investing in ourselves. – William J. Clinton • The purpose of finance is to enable business to acquire the ownership of capital instruments before it has saved the funds to buy and pay for them. The logic used by business in investing is things that will pay for themselves is not today available to the 95% born without capital. Most of us owe instead of own. And the less the economy needs our labor, the less able we are to “save” our way to capital ownership. – Louis O. Kelso • The pursuit of things robs me of investing more in the work of Christ. – Jack Hyles • The real secret to investing is that there is no secret to investing. – Seth Klarman • The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something – and then pay a lot less. – Joel Greenblatt • The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing. – John C. Bogle • The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stones, and the age of oil won’t end because we run out of oil. – Ahmed Zaki Yamani • The three most important words in investing…Margin of Safety. – Warren Buffett • The transaction reflects our disciplined strategy of investing capital in core businesses where we can leverage scale and expertise for competitive advantage. In addition to being a great strategic fit, the deal is compelling financially. – Jamie Dimon • There are jobs to be created on both sides of the climate argument. Whether we are investing in oil or sun, coal or wind, gas or algae, the economy will be stimulated by the investment. The economy, unlike each of us, is not swayed by ideology. – Evangeline Lilly • There are substantial rewards for adopting a regular routine of investing and following it no matter what, and additional rewards for buying more shares when most investors are scared into selling. – Peter Lynch • There is a secret to investing that cuts a path directly to the profits that you’re looking for. The secret is simplicity. The more elementary your investment style, the more confident you can be of making money in the long run. – Jane Bryant Quinn • There is empirical evidence that leading brands that keep investing during recessions gain share. – Ken Kaess • There is something in people; you might even call it a little bit of a gambling instinct… I tell people investing should be dull. It shouldn’t be exciting. Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas. – Paul Samuelson • There isn’t a person at the Koch brothers events who would not get a good return on their investment by investing in [Santorum] as president, because of what they believe about the free enterprise system. – Foster Friess • Time is a most precious asset. Would you consider investing more of your time in the things of eternity in order to merit the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost and to benefit more fully from His influence? – Keith K. Hilbig • To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit–investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value. – William J. Clinton • Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator. – Seth Klarman • Value investing is predicated on the efficient market hypothesis being wrong. – Seth Klarman • Value investing is risk aversion. – Seth Klarman • Value investing is the discipline of buying shares at a significant discount from their current underlying values and holding them until more of their value is realised. The element of a bargain is the key to the process. – Seth Klarman • Value investing requires a great deal of hard work, unusually strict discipline, and a long-term investment horizon. Few are willing and able to devote sufficient time and effort to become value investors, and only a fraction of those have the proper mind-set to succeed. – Seth Klarman • Value investors look at cash flows. If a company can maintain present cash flows for 5 or 6 years, it’s a good investment. Investors then just hope that those cash flows – and thus the company’s value – don’t decrease faster than they anticipate. – Peter Thiel • We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy. – Stephen Heintz • We need to continue investing in the programs that put Americans back to work in communities like Clark County. – Maria Cantwell • Well, higher-income people don’t have to pay taxes if they don’t want to because they can move their money somewhere else, they can move their investments. They can stop investing. They can stop working. They don’t need to work. They’re higher-income people. – Rick Santorum • We’ve got a tax code that is encouraging flight of jobs and outsourcing. And that’s why we’ve specifically recommended in this campaign that Congress change our tax code so that we stop giving tax breaks to companies that are moving to Mexico and China and other places, and start putting those tax breaks into companies that are investing here in the United States. – Barack Obama • What’s both fascinating and challenging about investing is that the changing nature of business and finance means you can never have it all figured out. – Whitney Tilson • What’s nice about investing is you don’t have to swing at every pitch. – Warren Buffett • When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: ‘we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year. – Warren Buffett • When we look at investing, we always think about ‘how defensible is this, how likely is it that somebody is going to copy this.’ E-commerce tends to be something easy to copy because it’s execution. – Niklas Zennstrom • When you – when you – and this is still going on today – are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover. – Howard Dean • Whether fuel cell system development in central Oregon, wind power generation along the Columbia Gorge, or geothermal energy in southern Oregon, investing in new energy sources makes America more energy independent while creating good paying, environmentally friendly jobs. – Greg Walden • While Financier George Soros was investing money in Kosovo’s reconstruction, the George Soros Foundation for an Open Society had opened a branch office in Pristina establishing the Kosovo Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) as part of the Soros’ network of “non-profit foundations” in the Balkans. – Michel Chossudovsky • While many applauded Oprah for opening her heart to young girls in South Africa, some criticized her for not investing in the youth of America. – Kitty Kelley • While some might mistakenly consider value investing a mechanical tool for identifying bargains, it is actually a comprehensive investment philosophy that emphasizes the need to perform in-depth fundamental analysis, pursue long-term investment results, limit risk, and resist crowd psychology. – Seth Klarman • Why didn’t I just throw my money out of the window – and light it on fire? – Peter Cohan • Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable. – Samantha Power • You are spending millions and millions of dollars of other peoples money when you make a movie. You have to at least approach it in a way where you can see how you can make that money back for the people who are investing. – Duncan Jones • You can learn investing by reading books. – Bill Ackman • You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve. – Bill Bonner • You don’t need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ. – Warren Buffett • You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future. – Reid Hoffman • You must never delude yourself into thinking that you’re investing when you’re speculating. – Benjamin Graham • Your investor’s edge is not something you get from Wall Street experts. It’s something you already have. You can outperform the experts if you use your edge by investing in companies or industries you already understand. – Peter Lynch

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  • A cell is a complex structure, with its investing membrane, nucleus, and nucleolus. – Charles Darwin • A constant in my approach to investing: You should think politically but unconventionally. – Kenneth Fisher • A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him. – John Maynard Keynes • A true luxury is a reward for investing in and developing a real asset. – Robert Kiyosaki • After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. – Calvin Coolidge • All intelligent investing is value investing – acquiring more that you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock. – Charlie Munger • All sensible investing is value investing – Charlie Munger • An outstanding addition to the volumes written on value investing. Not only do the authors offer their own valuable insights but they have provided in one publication invaluable insights from some of the most accomplished professionals in the investment business. I would call this publication a must-read for any serious investor. – Leon G. Cooperman • And what I’m interested in is investing in people. – Arthur Rock • Anyone who is not investing now is missing a tremendous opportunity. – Carlos Slim • As long as you enjoy investing, you’ll be willing to do the homework and stay in the game. That’s why I try to make the show so entertaining, because if you aren’t interested, you’ll either miss the opportunity to make money in the market or not pay enough attention and end up losing your shirt. – Jim Cramer • At heart, “uncertainty” and “investing” are synonyms. – Benjamin Graham • At Microsoft, we’re investing heavily in security because we want customers to be able to trust their computing experiences, so they can realize the full benefits of the interconnected world we live in. – Steve Ballmer

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• Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans. – R. H. Tawney • Being superficially different is the goal of so many of the products we see… rather than trying to innovate and genuinely taking the time, investing the resources and caring enough to try and make something better. – Jonathan Ive • Buffett’s uncommon urge to chronicle made him a unique character in American life, not only a great capitalist but the Great Explainer of American capitalism. He taught a generation how to think about business, and he showed that securities were not just tokens like the Monopoly flatiron, and that investing need not be a game of chance. It was also a logical, commonsensical enterprise, like the tangible businesses beneath. He stripped Wall Street of its mystery and rejoined it to Main Street — a mythical or disappearing place, perhaps, but one that is comprehensible to the ordinary American. – Roger Lowenstein • But when that information travels only to a privileged few, when it is used to profit at the expense of the investing public, when that information comes by way of favored access rather than by acumen, insight or diligence, we must ask, ‘Whose interest is really being served?’. – Arthur Levitt Jr • By investing at a discount, Benjamin Graham knew that he was unlikely to experience losses. – Seth Klarman • Chairman Priebus set out on an early and historic political outreach plan which called for investing resources early to build the RNC network well before Election Day. And although the elections are still eight months away, all indications are that the money has been well spent. Our message is getting out to the Hispanic, Asian and African American communities. If we can continue to implement this plan, we will be able to save the country from further policy damages at the hand of President Obama and the Democrats. – Matt Schlapp • China is doing lots of things right. It’s investing in education and R&D, it’s opening up, it’s more cosmopolitan than it’s ever been. I think it’s very likely that China will continue to explode economically and certainly become a superpower. – Amy Chua • Democrats believe we should renew our commitment to creating tax credits for hybrid vehicles, increasing fuel efficiency standards for cars, and investing in ethanol, biofuel, hydrogen fuel cell technology. – Rosa DeLauro • Do you know what investing for the long run but listening to market news everyday is like? It’s like a man walking up a big hill with a yo-yo and keeping his eyes fixed on the yo-yo instead of the hill. – Alan Abelson • Don’t limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded. – Charles R. Schwab • Ethanol reduces our dependence on foreign sources of oil and is an important weapon in the War on Terror. By investing in South Dakota’s ethanol producers, we will strengthen our energy security and create new jobs. – John Thune • For me it’s all about keeping things simple and feeling comfortable in what I am wearing. I prefer investing in classic well-tailored pieces. – Miranda Kerr • For me, being in front of a camera is a matter of practicing and refining your art. I think, if you’re telling a story worth telling, it’s worth investing the time into developing. – Danny Pino • For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously; pleasing and lightly instructing thousands, but gaining none of the prizes, whether of weighty reputation or popular renown, which more fortunate chances, or more pretending modes of investing talent, have given in our day to men of half his merits. – Samuel Laman Blanchard • Generally speaking, investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. Anything that improves your own talents; nobody can tax it or take it away from you. They can run up huge deficits and the dollar can become worth far less. You can have all kinds of things happen. But if you’ve got talent yourself, and you’ve maximized your talent, you’ve got a tremendous asset that can return ten-fold. – Warren Buffett • Growth and value investing are joined at the hip. – Warren Buffett • How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case. – Robert G. Allen • I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages. – Niklaus Wirth • I am investing like a crazy person, mostly in internet start-ups. And I want to invest in Brazil as well, because I am Brazilian and that’s in my heart. – Eduardo Saverin • I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor. – Grace Napolitano • I do a lot of media work, I’ve been investing and I’m involved with real estate. It’s totally different from what I had been doing but I find it challenging and fun. To be honest, I really don’t miss the track. I pretty well accomplished what I set out to do and it was time to move on. – Donovan Bailey • I find it more enjoyable investing time doing what pleases me, rather than wasting precious time attempting to please everyone else. – Greg Reid • I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from school, but from away games or the sports pages, and hooliganism has given me both a taste for sociology and a degree of fieldwork experience. I have learned the value of investing time and emotion in things I cannot control, and of belonging to a community whose aspirations I share completely and uncritically. – Nick Hornby • I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America. – Corrine Brown • I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I could about the subject. – Warren Buffett • I know no better way to show true patriotism and love for one’s country, than investing to create wealth and employment. – Strive Masiyiwa • I learned that a real friendship is not about what you can get, but what you can give. Real friendship is about making sacrifices and investing in people to help them improve their lives. – Eric Thomas • I never buy anything unless I can fill out on a piece of paper my reasons. I may be wrong, but I would know the answer to that …I’m paying $32 billion today for the Coca Cola Company because… If you can’t answer that question, you shouldn’t buy it. If you can answer that question, and you do it a few times, you’ll make a lot of money. – Warren Buffett • I take more jobs when I need more money, if I’m investing in films. I take fewer when I don’t. Or if something really good comes along, I usually find a way to do a good job on it in the time that I’ve got. – John Sayles • I think if you have mandatory carbon caps combined with a trading system, much like we did with sulfur, and if you have a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions, that there’s a package there that’s very, very good. – Newt Gingrich • I think we do not need to send more jobs to low wage countries. I think corporate America has to start investing in this country and create decent paying jobs here. – Hillary Clinton • I was educated to think maybe Brazil works, maybe it doesn’t. But I decided I am going to make this country work for my children. I am investing all my effort now in making Brazil a great country. – Eike Batista • I’ve always said that a wise businessperson will support the ANC… because supporting the ANC means you’re investing very well in your business – Jacob Zuma • If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing. – Warren Buffett • If I were investing in oil and gas stocks, there is one question I would ask CEO’s: What portion of your capital is going to have to go in to stay even – Gwyn Morgan • If investing is entertaining, if you’re having fun, you’re probably not making any money. Good investing is boring. – George Soros • If we assume that there are normal or standard income results to be obtained from investing money in securities, then the role of the adviser can be more readily established. He will use his superior training and experience to protect his clients against mistakes and to make sure that they obtain the results to which their money is entitled. – Benjamin Graham • If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan – or a company like Xerox – then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be very good business. – Anne M. Mulcahy • If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late. – Clayton Christensen • If you have never missed when investing, you haven’t been in there trying. – Venita VanCaspel • If you invested in a very low cost index fund – where you don’t put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years -you’ll do better than 90% of people who start investing at the same time. – Warren Buffett • I’m able to lead my life as well as make a film. My wife and my friends and people around me know that I do tend to distance myself a little bit during the making of a film, but I have to, it’s a natural part of the process for me because you are indulging in the headspace of somebody else, you are investing in the psychology of somebody else and you are becoming somebody else, and so there isn’t enough room for you and that somebody else. – Guy Pearce • I’m standing here saying that those who miss the boat now, will miss it forever. So if you want to be in Africa, think about investing. – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala • In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children’s classrooms and in their future. – Bob Riley • In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard. – Warren Buffett • In my home state of Delaware, we’ve done our homework and worked hard and, as a result, we’ve made great strides in cleaning up our own air pollution. Unfortunately, a number of the upwind states to the west of us have not made the same commitment to reducing harmful pollution by investing in cleaner air. – Thomas Carper • In ourselves, rather than in material nature, lie the true source and life of the beautiful. The human soul is the sun which diffuses light on every side, investing creation with its lovely hues, and calling forth the poetic element that lies hidden in every existing thing. – Giuseppe Mazzini • Investing and connecting are the key factors in turning any intention into reality. – Rhonda Britten • Investing in Chicago property is just Wandas first move into the U.S. real estate market. – Wang Jianlin • Investing in the market without knowing what stage it is in is like selling life insurance to 20 year olds and 80 year olds at the same premium. – Victor Sperandeo • Investing in tomorrow’s technology today is more critical than ever. – Bill Gates • Investing in women’s lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations – and consequently in our own long-term national interests. – Liya Kebede • Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market. – John Maynard Keynes • Investing is far more cumulative [than chess]. So long as you’re sharp, you can do it for as long as you want. – Patrick Wolff • Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don’t do any work. – Peter Lynch • Investing is important, but get debt-free first. That’s what frees up your income so you can win. – Dave Ramsey • Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future. – Warren Buffett • Investing is most intelligent when it is most businesslike. – Benjamin Graham • Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are. – Warren Buffett • Investing is simple, but not easy. – Warren Buffett • Investing is the greatest business in the world because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate; the pitcher throws you General Motors at 47! U.S. Steel at 39! And nobody calls a strike on you. There’s no penalty except opportunity. All day you wait for the pitch you like; then, when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it. – Warren Buffett • Investing is the intersection of economics and psychology. – Seth Klarman • Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas. – Paul Samuelson • Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing – Jessica Livingston • It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations. – Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth • It just seems logical that sticking to investing in only a small number of companies that you understand well, rather than moving down the list to your thirtieth or fiftieth favorite pick, would create a much greater potential to earn above-average investment returns. – Joel Greenblatt • I’ve felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing on Wall Street. When economics is taught by pure academics, watch out. – Mark Skousen • Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. – Sigmund Freud • Let’s hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won’t buy. – Simon Mainwaring • Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac’s talents didn’t extend to investing: He lost a bundle in the South Sea Bubble, explaining later, ‘I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.’ If he had not been traumatized by this loss, Sir Isaac might well have gone on to discover the Fourth Law of Motion: For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases. – Warren Buffett • Money is ultimately not enough compensation for investing your time and energy: there has to be a sense of purpose, meaning and fulfillment. – Dan Miller • Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new. – Bob Parsons • No wonder nobody around the world is nervous about America anymore. No wonder we’re not intimidating our adversaries and they’re running around wild in the world, because they know we’re not investing in our defense anymore. We need to make or military strong, not to wage war, but to avoid war and to bring peace and stability in the world. – Chris Christie • Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something. – Shelley Berkley • Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development – it has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service. – Akio Morita • one of the greatest deterrents to successful investing is the three-letter word ego. – Venita VanCaspel • One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions. – Joshua Waitzkin • One thing I’d like to do is angel investing in small companies. That’s what’s exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks. – Nick D’Aloisio • Our economy is the result of millions of decisions we all make every day about producing, earning, saving, investing, and spending. – Dwight D. Eisenhower • Our government is committed to investing in world-class research networks such as GlycoNet, which will develop new drugs and vaccines to fight diseases that affect millions of Canadians. These investments will improve our quality of life and contribute to the creation of a stronger, more innovative economy and a more prosperous Canada. – Rona Ambrose • People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they’ll stop investing. – Steve Jobs • People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity. – Robert Kiyosaki • Picking the right stocks is one of the hardest parts of investing, and every night on Mad Money, I try to take some of that burden off your shoulders. – Jim Cramer • Please understand, I am not saying that technology is unimportant. I understand that technology is important. But if we are just focusing on technology and investing in an IT manufacturing plant to come up with higher performance processing [chips], we will not succeed. – Satoru Iwata • President Marcos was investing in precious metals long before he entered politics. – Imelda Marcos • Quinn’s First Law of Investing is never to buy anything whose price you can’t follow in the newspapers. An investment without a public marketplace attracts the fabulists the way picnics attract ants. Stock brokers and financial planners can tell you anything they want, because no one really knows what’s true. The First Corollary to Quinn’s First Law states that, even when the price is in the newspapers, you shouldn’t buy anything too complex to explain to the average 12-year-old. – Jane Bryant Quinn • Re-investing in one’s own little moments of insight is very important – Anish Kapoor • So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it – so long as I’m not investing too much capital in these things. – Jackie Cooper • So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country. – Patrick J. Kennedy • Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you’re not in too big a hurry – Warren Buffett • Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing. – Warren Buffett • Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it. – Benjamin Graham • Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others. – John Maynard Keynes • Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it. – Benjamin Graham • Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. – Warren Buffett • The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused grouping together the lofty deeds of a great number of heroes, whose names they have not even deigned to preserve, and investing the single personage of Hercules with them. In our own time the public delight in blending fable with history. In every career of life, in the pursuit of science especially, they enjoy a pleasure in creating Herculeses. – Francois Arago • The art of investing is not about figuring out what has already happened. It’s about anticipating the futureand creating the future that others will read about in The Wall Street Journal. – Joshua Rogers • The big success stories – Facebook, Zynga and Twitter – are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing. – Eric Lefkofsky • The difference between the price we pay for a stock and its liquidation value gives us a margin of safety. This kind of investing is one of the most effective ways of achieving good long term results. – Peter Cundill • The evidence shows that investing in women and girls delivers major benefits for society. An educated woman has healthier children. She is more likely to send them to school. She earns more and invests what she earns in her family. – Jimmy Carter • The game of investing is one of making better predictions about the future than other people. How are you going to do that? One way is to limit your tries to areas of competence. If you try to predict the future of everything, you attempt too much. – Charlie Munger • The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. – Stephen Covey • The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage. – Warren Buffett • The only preparation for prospering in the global economy is investing in ourselves. – William J. Clinton • The purpose of finance is to enable business to acquire the ownership of capital instruments before it has saved the funds to buy and pay for them. The logic used by business in investing is things that will pay for themselves is not today available to the 95% born without capital. Most of us owe instead of own. And the less the economy needs our labor, the less able we are to “save” our way to capital ownership. – Louis O. Kelso • The pursuit of things robs me of investing more in the work of Christ. – Jack Hyles • The real secret to investing is that there is no secret to investing. – Seth Klarman • The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something – and then pay a lot less. – Joel Greenblatt • The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing. – John C. Bogle • The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stones, and the age of oil won’t end because we run out of oil. – Ahmed Zaki Yamani • The three most important words in investing…Margin of Safety. – Warren Buffett • The transaction reflects our disciplined strategy of investing capital in core businesses where we can leverage scale and expertise for competitive advantage. In addition to being a great strategic fit, the deal is compelling financially. – Jamie Dimon • There are jobs to be created on both sides of the climate argument. Whether we are investing in oil or sun, coal or wind, gas or algae, the economy will be stimulated by the investment. The economy, unlike each of us, is not swayed by ideology. – Evangeline Lilly • There are substantial rewards for adopting a regular routine of investing and following it no matter what, and additional rewards for buying more shares when most investors are scared into selling. – Peter Lynch • There is a secret to investing that cuts a path directly to the profits that you’re looking for. The secret is simplicity. The more elementary your investment style, the more confident you can be of making money in the long run. – Jane Bryant Quinn • There is empirical evidence that leading brands that keep investing during recessions gain share. – Ken Kaess • There is something in people; you might even call it a little bit of a gambling instinct… I tell people investing should be dull. It shouldn’t be exciting. Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas. – Paul Samuelson • There isn’t a person at the Koch brothers events who would not get a good return on their investment by investing in [Santorum] as president, because of what they believe about the free enterprise system. – Foster Friess • Time is a most precious asset. Would you consider investing more of your time in the things of eternity in order to merit the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost and to benefit more fully from His influence? – Keith K. Hilbig • To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit–investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value. – William J. Clinton • Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator. – Seth Klarman • Value investing is predicated on the efficient market hypothesis being wrong. – Seth Klarman • Value investing is risk aversion. – Seth Klarman • Value investing is the discipline of buying shares at a significant discount from their current underlying values and holding them until more of their value is realised. The element of a bargain is the key to the process. – Seth Klarman • Value investing requires a great deal of hard work, unusually strict discipline, and a long-term investment horizon. Few are willing and able to devote sufficient time and effort to become value investors, and only a fraction of those have the proper mind-set to succeed. – Seth Klarman • Value investors look at cash flows. If a company can maintain present cash flows for 5 or 6 years, it’s a good investment. Investors then just hope that those cash flows – and thus the company’s value – don’t decrease faster than they anticipate. – Peter Thiel • We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy. – Stephen Heintz • We need to continue investing in the programs that put Americans back to work in communities like Clark County. – Maria Cantwell • Well, higher-income people don’t have to pay taxes if they don’t want to because they can move their money somewhere else, they can move their investments. They can stop investing. They can stop working. They don’t need to work. They’re higher-income people. – Rick Santorum • We’ve got a tax code that is encouraging flight of jobs and outsourcing. And that’s why we’ve specifically recommended in this campaign that Congress change our tax code so that we stop giving tax breaks to companies that are moving to Mexico and China and other places, and start putting those tax breaks into companies that are investing here in the United States. – Barack Obama • What’s both fascinating and challenging about investing is that the changing nature of business and finance means you can never have it all figured out. – Whitney Tilson • What’s nice about investing is you don’t have to swing at every pitch. – Warren Buffett • When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: ‘we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year. – Warren Buffett • When we look at investing, we always think about ‘how defensible is this, how likely is it that somebody is going to copy this.’ E-commerce tends to be something easy to copy because it’s execution. – Niklas Zennstrom • When you – when you – and this is still going on today – are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover. – Howard Dean • Whether fuel cell system development in central Oregon, wind power generation along the Columbia Gorge, or geothermal energy in southern Oregon, investing in new energy sources makes America more energy independent while creating good paying, environmentally friendly jobs. – Greg Walden • While Financier George Soros was investing money in Kosovo’s reconstruction, the George Soros Foundation for an Open Society had opened a branch office in Pristina establishing the Kosovo Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) as part of the Soros’ network of “non-profit foundations” in the Balkans. – Michel Chossudovsky • While many applauded Oprah for opening her heart to young girls in South Africa, some criticized her for not investing in the youth of America. – Kitty Kelley • While some might mistakenly consider value investing a mechanical tool for identifying bargains, it is actually a comprehensive investment philosophy that emphasizes the need to perform in-depth fundamental analysis, pursue long-term investment results, limit risk, and resist crowd psychology. – Seth Klarman • Why didn’t I just throw my money out of the window – and light it on fire? – Peter Cohan • Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable. – Samantha Power • You are spending millions and millions of dollars of other peoples money when you make a movie. You have to at least approach it in a way where you can see how you can make that money back for the people who are investing. – Duncan Jones • You can learn investing by reading books. – Bill Ackman • You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve. – Bill Bonner • You don’t need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ. – Warren Buffett • You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future. – Reid Hoffman • You must never delude yourself into thinking that you’re investing when you’re speculating. – Benjamin Graham • Your investor’s edge is not something you get from Wall Street experts. It’s something you already have. You can outperform the experts if you use your edge by investing in companies or industries you already understand. – Peter Lynch