Be as good to yourself as you are to those you love.
A pile of bills and statements – whether paid or not – is a sign that someone is clueless about what’s coming in and going out.
Every portfolio benefits from bonds; they provide a cushion when the stock market hits a rough patch. But avoiding stocks completely could mean your investment won’t grow any faster than the rate of inflation.
It’s easy to underestimate the real cost of home ownership.
If you have a 50 percent match and you get in trouble financially, you can either withdraw money as a loan, or withdraw the 50 percent match. If you take it out, you have to pay taxes on it, but you still come out ahead.
Success is not how many zeroes your bank account has. It’s about making the most of the life you have.
Women need to turn their attention from saving their spouse, their mothers, their this, their that, their kids, to putting that financial oxygen mask on their face first. When they’re solid, they can pick up the whole world.
One has to ask what is the goal of life? What is the goal of life? My interpretation of it for myself, a very wise teacher once taught me this, is to meet the needs of the people, places and the times around you and offering those services to God.
You can have all the money in the world. You can be a multi-billionaire, but if you do not have your health it means nothing. Your health is the No. 1 important thing in your life.
You can’t build a future if you do not know who you are. You can’t become who you are meant to be if you can’t tell the truth about who you are, what you have, and everything about your life. The truth is the absolute essence to your success, while lies are the absolute essence to your failures.
Although money alone won’t make us happy, the lack of money surely will make us miserable.
We each focus on what we’re going to buy, but that’s an incorrect focus. Focus instead on why you want to spend the money on this or that. What feeling in you does it satisfy?
What happens to your money directly affects the quality of your life – not your stockbroker’s life or your banker’s life, but YOUR life.
I have a million dollars in the stock market, because if I lose a million dollars, I don’t personally care.
Focus on what you have.
A great teacher once taught me that you’ve got to have faith that everything happens for the best. I have had many setbacks in my career and every setback has led me that much further into my truth.
If the relationship between you and your money is harmonious, regardless of how much you have, your financial transactions will be harmonious as well.
Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn’t have any money?
Money is a topic that touches all races, all religions, all sexes, all ages, all tax brackets. It’s a universal language that truly has been held up to us in society as a thing that determines whether we are successful, worthy, whether we have contributed something to life or not.
The truth will always lead you to a better place and a bigger place. And every single setback, every single one, has led me – not in my time, but in the time that it was meant to happen – to a place that I never in a million years could have imagined that I could go or become.