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

Work is a surefire money-making scheme.

People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird’s eye view and they don’t create a systematic plan.

Debt is normal. Be weird.

You will only sacrifice when you passionately believe in the outcome.

There’s a great place to go when you’re broke–to work!

Money is not good or evil. It has no morals or intentions on its own. Money reflects the character of the user.

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.

A good financial planner is going to do more than pick your funds.

Broke people giving financial advice is like a shop teacher with missing fingers.

The decision to go into debt alters the course and condition of your life. You no longer own it. You are owned.

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.

The average millionaire can’t tell you who got thrown off the island last night.

Goals are visions and dreams with work clothes on.

Where you are today is the sum of every choice you’ve ever made. If you don’t like where you are, start making different choices!

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.

You must walk to the beat of a different drummer. The same beat that the wealthy hear. If the beat sounds normal, evacuate the dance floor immediately! The goal is to not be normal, because as my radio listeners know, normal is broke.

When I listen to music my heart opens and the words spill out.

You can’t fake listening. It shows.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like – then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.

Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.

Never listen to accounts of the frailty of others; and if anyone should complain to you of another, humbly ask him not to speak about him at all.

Listen to your body – she never lies.

Laying on the floor and listening to music might be all the therapy that you need.