Quotes of the Day

A HELOC (home equity line of credit) allows a homeowner with significant equity access to that dormant equity. The homeowner can do what they want with the money. The most financially literate and sophisticated people have always borrowed against home equity to invest. [2017] - Calum Ross

You should locate companies that have clients logically predisposed to your product or service. (For example, a real estate company might have clients interested in carpet cleaner) Each company should give an endorsement to your product or service, and in return they should receive a certain percentage of the profits from all sales. Or offer other forms of compensation like donations to their favorite charity or help with their accounting expenses. [2000] - Jay Abramham

Many business owners start a business because they think the business is a good idea, but they have no plan on how to get out of the business. [2000] - Robert T. Kiyosaki

What is the minimum amount someone should trade with? A safe bet would be about $25,000 to $50,000 for futures and $100,000 for equities. When trading with these amounts it’s reasonable for a decent trader to expect to make about $5000 to $10,000 per month in a good month while still being somewhat conservative in his trading. [2003] - Marcel Link

A polygenic risk score can be inexpensively obtained from a gene chip (array) that assesses over a million common genomic variants that have been quantitatively validated to be associated with risk of a particular cancer, in terms of a score. While these were initially based on European ancestry cohorts, their accuracy and clinical utility have been markedly improved with diverse ancestry and large population data. The principal goal of a polygenic risk score is to identify high-risk individuals so that they can be followed closely. Polygenic risk scores can miss high-risk cases, which is why it's so important to have multiple layers of orthogonal (complementary, additive) data. [2025] - Eric Topol