I have been spending the past couple of days with my Father. My Father is one man that I have admired and looked up to all my life. Ever since I was a kid and even now that I’m 30 I still learn something new from him every day.
Tonight I decided to sit down and recall some of the things he said to me all my life. The pieces of advice he had given me. I want to write it here, so that Fighter will always remember the things his grandfather had passed on to me. Note that some of these quotes are quotes that have probably been around that my father had gotten wind of and then repeated to me.
Here are the 12 I remember.
1) “Success is not measured by how much you have in the bank. it’s measured by a delicate balance you achieve between family, money, health and happiness”.
2) “Be nice to people on your way up in life because you’ll see the same people on your way down”.
3) “A new car is like a pretty face. The first scratch hurts the most. But after enough scratches you don’t care anymore”.
4) “Never be cocky. Because there will always be someone bigger and better than you”.
5) “In any sport you play, buy the best and most expensive equipment so that if you lose, you have nothing and nobody to blame but yourself”.
6) “The best way to make money is from the stock market. You have no sunk cost and capital can go in and out quickly”.
7) “Sometimes the stock market has spirits. The first time your friend tells you to buy a stock, you don’t buy and it goes up. The second time your friend tells you to buy a stock, you don’t buy and again it goes up. The third time your friend tells you to buy a stock you decide you must be a fool to not buy it. That’s the stock that goes down”.
8) “How you treat your parents is how your kids will treat you”.
9) “Behind every successful man is a woman. Behind every failure of a man is also a woman”.
10) “Trust nobody. Always have your check and balance”.
11) “Most people aren’t as rich as they look. You see their assets (their houses, cars etc) but you don’t see their debts.”
12) “Buy insurance if you can’t afford the cost of something happening. If you can afford it then insure yourself”.
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space