If you wouldn’t want your mother to buy the item or the service then don’t sell it.
70% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Seven out of ten people you walk past going down the sidewalk are broke. You can model your life after them, and you will be one of them. Or you can mode your life after the weird people. Because wealth is unusual. It’s not normal. So you have to engage in unusual behaviors and habits to create unusual results.
Again, college is important – very important – but it is not the answer to all your kids’ problems. I will be so bold as to say college isn’t even a need; it is a want. It isn’t a necessity; it is a luxury. This luxury is one of the first on my list, but not before retirement, not before an emergency fund, and certainly not as a reason to go into debt.
The haves and have-nots can often be traced back to the dids and did-nots. D. O. FLYNN.
Goals convert vision into energy. When you lay out exactly what you want to do in detail, you immediately start feeling the room move and the earth shake. You are pulled into your new life like some scene from a movie. Goals help make great men. J. C. Penney once said, “Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal and I will give you a stock clerk.
If you are going to open a retail store you would want to consider Christmas. Most retailers make the majority of their entire year’s income between.
As long as the sun was shining, life was a party, and the pig with brick seemed kind of nerdy, or overly conservative, or even fanatical. But when their stupid theories were stress tested, their houses fell.
A man with an experience is not at the mercy of a man with an opinion.
We have a retirement crisis in America today nor from a lack of money, but from a lack of vision.
If she were to invest $3,500 in a mutual fund averaging 12 percent, upon an average death age of seventy-eight, Sara’s mutual fund would be worth $368,500!
If you will do the things others won’t do then some day you will have the life others won’t have.
Henry Ford, who definitely had more than enough, said, “Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
If we aren’t profitable by December 20, I will close the business.” That would leave him about $800,000, plus his retirement money and home, and he would do something else to earn a living.
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. J. G. HOLLAND.
I like the way I’ve built wealth better than the way you haven’t.
Good to Great by my friend Jim Collins.
If I loan money to a friend or relative, the relationship will be strained or destroyed. The only relationship that would be enhanced is the kind resulting from one party being the master and the other party a servant.
Traction equals satisfaction.
La Rochefoucauld once said, “The most untutored person with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without.
President John F. Kennedy said, “There are costs and risks to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.