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That matters because successful investors make hay while the sun shines.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

TikTokers like Julie Kay and Catherine Benson make hay from the visual splendor of the well-apportioned kitchen, stocking their refrigerators like a particularly fancy hotel minibar and doing things with Tupperware you could never imagine.

From Slate • Mar. 15, 2025

Or do they make hay while the sun is shining, and keep the firewood piled high, then brace for impact and wait for the long winter to pass?

From Salon • Dec. 31, 2024

She aims to make hay of these loans that might merely have been also-rans at richer, bigger institutions in big cities.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2022

But thankfully she didn’t make hay about it.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan




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