“And sometimes that's taking $80,000 contracts and just getting rid of all those and maybe even engaging in five to $10,000 engagements that give us that cash up front to enable us to be cash flowed.”

“I had to switch accountants last year… one accountant… $350,000… another said I owed $40,000… got me back $40,000… $80,000 swing.”

“At 65 years old, if you paid 3% in fees, you got $432,000. If you paid 1% in fees, your $100,000 went to $761,000.”

“Decent projects that some grantmakers funded and others didn't had cost effectivenesses of $5,000 to $10,000 And projects that we took seriously but mostly didn't end up funding unless there were hard to quantify reasons in favor were usually in the range of 1.10 to $20,000 Beyond $20,000 was the line where the human grantmakers I observed generally didn't treat...”

“I paid $99 for that tracksuit and I got 50,000 IHG points. I ended up buying four of those. So I got 200,000 IHG hotel points in total, which were worth more to me.”