“Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!”

Delegation requires the willingness to pay for short term failures in order to gain long term competency.

No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon.

Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money.

Remember, there’s ultimately only one way to financial peace, and that’s to walk daily with the Prince of Peace, Christ Jesus.

Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.

You can’t be in debt and win. It doesn’t work.

You can get anywhere if you simply go one step at a time.

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.

Poor is a state of mind. Broke is, ‘I’m just passing through.’

Doing a budget means learning an ancient and powerful word: NO.

Nothing happens without focus. Don’t try to do everything at once. Take it one step at a time.

Surround yourself with people who add the fuel of advice and encouragement to your fire.

Investing is important, but get debt-free first. That’s what frees up your income so you can win.

Be very proud of what you do, and if you aren’t then change it.

You can’t work three hours a week and make $100,000. Get rich quick doesn’t work. Crock pot mentality always defeats microwave mentality!

If you come with mercy but not justice; that’s called enabling.

This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.

When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart.

All the aspects of playwriting, scene-building, the architecture of dramatizing.

When a man jumps out of a ten-story building.

I’m trying to get some building work done at the moment.

Filthy McNasty’s and I said, I need these things and now fill it in with other iconic buildings.

I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.

And there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else’s drawing sounds like going back to heaven.