Consider a 15- or 20-year fixed-rate mortgage instead of a 30-year, if you can afford the monthly payments – they may not be as high as you think.
We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.
Stop saying yes out of fear about what others will think about you and say NO out of love for yourself!
Each cent you apply toward diminishing your debt replenishes you.
There is nothing more beautiful than a confident woman.
I grew up thinking that because I couldn’t read, I was stupid and would never amount to anything. I worked my way through college as a waitress and thought I wasn’t capable of doing anything else. My grades in English were horrible, and I barely got through.
How you end something as profound and important as a marriage is a reflection of how you live your life – financially, emotionally, and spiritually.
When you start really respecting yourself, those you love, and your money, the result is that you start having control over your money. What follows from that is control over your life.
Money doesn’t bring courage, I learned. It’s the other way around. Once I took that lesson to heart, I began to rebuild my life.
Money is a living entity, and it responds to energy exactly the same way you do. It is drawn to those who welcome it, those who respect it. Wouldn’t you rather be with people who respect you and who don’t want you to be something you’re not? Your money feels the same way.
Messages about money are passed down from generation to generation, worn and chipped like the family dishes.
You must remember the value that you add to others and not just what others have added to you. That’s how we build self-worth, which, in my opinion, is just as important as net worth.
It’s not selfish to give TO yourself as much as you give OF yourself.
We need to give people more of an incentive to work, to save, to invest, to create a true future for themselves.
You need face time, not computer time. When you’re in a tough job market, it’s the personal touch that gets you the job.
Lasting net worth comes only when you have a healthy and strong sense of self-worth.
I have always said that if you undervalue what you do, the world undervalues who you are. And when you undervalue who you are, the world undervalues what you do. My experience is that women are, unfortunately, masters at both.
How we behave toward our money, how we treat our money, speaks volumes about how we perceive and value ourselves. If we aren’t powerful with money, we aren’t powerful period.
We have to develop a healthy, honest relationship with our money. And we have to see this relationship as a reflection of our relationship with ourselves.
Rich means different things to different people,” she wrote. “Financial security is your lifeblood. Creative freedom and expression is mine. If you can experience life in all its forms and experience that you are one with it, then you are the richest person in the world. And when one is in tune with this and one knows the value of material things in creating that environment, the senses are in high creative alert all the time.
Self-worth equals net worth.