If your life is bad because of an elected official, then you don’t have a life.
Doing a budget means learning an ancient and powerful word: NO.
At the end of the day we are not selling, we are serving.
When people get scared, they quit giving.
Just keep taking the next step and keep having excellence in the ordinary.
Wealth gained by dishonesty will be diminished, but he who gathers by labor will increase.
Financial Security is not enough money to buy toys. That is to learn to live with less money than you earn. So, you can help other individuals or investors. You are not a winner until done it.
I have to live my books before I write them.
A big part of being strong financially is that you know where you are weak and take action to make sure you don’t fall prey to the weakness. And we ALL are weak.
Broke is normal. Why be normal?
When leadership set the goals by themselves, they are not goals, they are quotas.
A good financial planner is going to do more than pick your funds.
Gratitude is really, really attractive. A child who is genuinely grateful makes you want to do anything for her, and that is true of adults as well.
I’m not against people having new cars. I’m against them having you. We spend a tremendous amount impressing somebody at the stoplight who we’ll never meet. It makes you broke and keeps you broke.
If you buy a $28,000 car, in four years it will be worth about 11,000 bucks.
That stupid saying “What you don’t know can’t hurt you” is ridiculous. What you don’t know can kill you. If you don’t know that tractor trailer trucks hurt when hitting you, then you can play in the middle of the interstate with no fear – but that doesn’t mean you won’t get killed.
We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.
You’re not exempt from math if you’re a Republican, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a Democrat. You’re not exempt from math if you’re a liberal, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a conservative. You still have to do math.
If people in America would get their finances together and start taking care of each other, we could put the government out of business.
After losing everything, I went on a quest to find out how money really works, how I could get control of it, and how I could have confidence in handling it.