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Kabir Sehgal is an American author, composer, producer, navy officer, military veteran, investment banker, and financial executive. He is the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of eight books. He has also won two Grammy Awards and a Latin Grammy Award as a record producer. He was previously a vice president at JPMorgan Chase.

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When you go to a Japense wedding, make sure that you tie the ribbon on the present tightly because if you don't, you may imply that you don't think the marriage will last.

Japense, May, Present, Ribbon, Thinking, Ties

Money is becoming increasingly plastic and digital. If there is a major disaster, let's say an asteroid strike, we'll go back to trading meats and furs. We won't need an abstraction, a dollar bill, but real tangible goods to survive.

Asteroids, Becoming, Digital, Furs, Real, Survive

We don't invest in financial literacy in a meaningful way. We should be teaching elementary school children how to balance a checkbook, how to do basic accounting, why it's important to pay your bills on time. First, education. Begin the learning process as early as possible, in elementary school. Second, encourage and support entrepreneurism. Third, policy. I know it's a priority of the US Treasury to augment financial inclusion and increase financial literacy.

Accounting, Children, Know, Meaningful, Teaching

On a biological level, the brain registers money as something valuable - even a dollar bill which has no intrinsic value, it's just paper.

Brain, Dollar Bills, Dollars, Intrinsic, Money, Valuable

"Begin with where you are. " Everyone is looking to get ahead, but you get ahead by doing well at the things that are immediately in front of you. Start with the people around you, learn from them, and invest in them.

People, Where You Are, Wells, Start, Everyone, Front

Researchers have found that identical twins who have been separated for long periods of time actually invest in a similar manner. Biology really does affect how we spend money.

Doe, Long, Periods, Twins

In some cultures, when you give someone a gift, it's expected that they will pass it on. This seems like a peculiar practice in the West, but in many other societies, a gift has a spirit. If you try to possess the gift, you remove its spirit as a gift.

Practice, Giving, Trying, Possess, Give, Spirit

Look at Google. They are re-organizing their businesses ,even renaming it with Alphabet, so they can be bolder and make strategic mistakes and then learn from them. But most companies aren't Google in that they make incremental changes and don't go for the moon shot.

Companies, Google, Mistake, Moon, Shot, Strategic

It is important to understand that the most important currency is social debt. Doing things for others. In order to get, you have to give.

Give, Giving, Important, Order, Social

Money is really like blood. You need it to live but it isn't the point of life.

Blood, Needs, Money, Like, Live

The challenge of our generation, whether it's young lawyers, young investment bankers, is to make capitalism work for people not just around the corner, but for people all around the world.

Bankers, Challenges, Corner, Investment, Our Generation, People

We need to have financial literacy in America, not just complaining about obstructionism. We need solutions. And I think the solutions are using high finance to make capitalism work for people around the world.

America, Financial, Make, People, Thinking

I don't think money can be understood through a lens limited to economics. And most books about money tell you the history of money, the instrument. But money is also an idea, one that we exchange to survive.

Book, Economics, Ideas, Lens, Think, Thinking

We are privileged that the dollar is the "currency of last resort" and the most important currency in the world. Global commodities are priced in dollars. Central banks in other countries hold great quantities of dollars. The dollar was the safe harbor, the port in the storm during the credit crisis.

Central, Country, Dollars, Important, Storm

For the last several decades, there was a prevailing belief among traditional economists that the markets were rational and self-correcting. Alan Greenspan advocated this view. But the 2008 financial crisis showed that this view is incorrect, and Greenspan eventually admitted as much.

Alan, Crisis, Lasts, Self, View, Views

Persistence. Change doesn't happen overnight. You have to stay with it. Rosa Parks helped start the Civil Rights movement in earnest in 1955. Then it was nearly a decade until the Civil Rights Act was passed.

Civil, Movement, Nearly, Persistence, Rights, Stay

Reputation will become an even more important currency in the future.

Become, Currency, Important, Reputation

All decisions originate in the brain. So if we can better understand what's happening in the brain when we make investment decisions, maybe one day we'll be able to make more accurate financial forecasts - for a stock or even the entire market.

Brain, Decision, Investment, Market, One Day, Stock

Researchers have compared brain scans of those people who are making money to those high on cocaine and found that them to be almost identical. Money has a biological and psychological effect on us.

Brain, Compared, Identical, Making Money, People, Scans

I think the money for the solutions for global poverty is on Wall Street. Wall Street allocates capital. And we need to get capital to the ideas that are successful, whether it's microfinance, whether it's through financial literacy programs, Wall Street can be the engine that makes capital get to the people who need it.

Capital, Literacy, Street, Successful, Thinking, Wall

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