“For your own good, for the good of your family and your future, grow a backbone. When something is wrong, stand up and say it is wrong, and don’t back down.”

The world will try to tell you that you need stuff to be somebody. Don’t listen.

When you create a basic budget and stick to it, it will suddenly seem like you have more money.

You’ve got to tell your money what to do or it will leave.

If you help enough people, you don’t have to worry about money.

Work-get paid; don’t work-don’t get paid. Everybody is on commission.

Making mistakes and learning from them is crucial to winning.

We live in a culture full of hares; but the tortoise always wins.

Fear is the enemy of hope.

Contentment may be the most powerful Financial Principle. You can give more, avoid debt, and live better.

Feeling lost? Take a dream and convert it into small goals, then start taking the steps to hit those goals.

Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it every day. Diligence is doing it well every day.

Money… is like a beautiful thoroughbred horse – very powerful & always in action, but unless this horse is trained when very young, it will be an out-of-control & dangerous animal when it grows to maturity.

You don’t build wealth with credit card rewards and airline miles. You can’t beat the credit card companies at their own game.

Study the habits of the people you want to be like and then imitate them. If they are succeeding, they must be doing something right.

Good things that cannot be calculated or quantified are set in motion in your life and in your finances when you give.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who execute them are not.

Won’t someone please answer my prayers before I’m old and gray. I’ve been lonely too long and all my family thinks I’m gay.

People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.

I have three kids, and that’s a big part of staying focused.

We don’t really have any big family traditions; just spending time with each other is the most important part.

Friendships are the family we make – not the one we inherit. I’ve always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

I can buy anything I want now. It hasn’t changed me personally. It just changed what I can do for myself and my family.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.