Future Capitalist Gifts

'One day son, all this will be asset stripped.'

Or as I prefer to call it, the 'feel-good' factor.

'Well, Tommy, you've grown a foot since the last time I saw you!'

Procrastinator Foumdation: 'We're putting off the decision to fund you for at least another month...'

"Cash, Jordan. That's what separates man from the apes."

'Jimmy Chang gets his allowance in Yuan, and his parents let him buy and sell precious metals...'

"May I skip the usual Show & Tell and try to hustle some merch?"

The man who invented the wheel/The man who patented the wheel.

"Father would never understand me investing in things called Google and Yahoo."

An Everyday Explanation of the Federal Budget.

The Personal ATM

'In the future, if we're a little late with your allowance, don't just automatically turn it over to a collection agency.'

"Most of what I want this year is listed on the Nasdaq."

"I don't get an allowance. I get earnings per share."

Big business is not evil

'I'd love to play house, Kevin, but I've got a business to run.'

"R&D really created a miracle drug this time...at least it's been miraculous for our bottom line!"

Global warming debate.

"He can't speak to you at the moment - he's bonding with his compensation package."

'There's a no-nonsense quality about TJ that I admire.'

"Be honest. Where do you see me in five years?"

"Last question. Where do you see yourself thirty seconds from now?"

'Today the stock market closed early so money managers could take time to stop and smell the profits.'

The Little Banker Bonus Pack

'Organisations that are not driven by the future quickly find themselves the dust of history,'

'I'm worth more than $3,000 as a federal income tax exemption. So how about a raise in my allowance?'

"I'm creating the world's first 'instant lowrider' kit! I'll need partners...and when the profits roll in, I'll take 75 percent and they will get 50 percent."

"I like your reading the financial pages junior. It shows you have an acquisitive mind."

Boom and Bust

GDP

"Don't worry, all the politicians are promising that we have a bright future ahead of us..."

"Oh I don't think it's as bad as all that. In fact, I think we're in the golden age of something which we won't even realize it's the golden age of until many years from now."

'Do you realise Jenkins, that I started this company without a penny to my name? Well, unless you count that measley couple of million my father left me. '

'The Rich Get Richer - The Poor Get Poorer'

"My son's a commonwealth - I give him money to be independent."