“Rich people take advice from people who are richer than they are. Poor people take advice from their friends, who are just as broke as they are.”

In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, it’s what’s under the ground that creates what’s above the ground. That’s why placing your attention on the fruits that you have already grown is futile.

If you want to move to a new level in your life, you must break through your comfort zone and practice doing things that are not comfortable.

Never try to pull someone up who doesn’t want it…they’ll just pull you down.

Today’s Declaration: I am courageous. I am willing to act in spite of fear.

Don’t let them bother you. In fact, don’t even call them problems; refer to them as “challenges” or “situations”.

Rich people think long-term. They balance their spending on enjoyment today with investing for freedom tomorrow.

Make a decision that from now on, your thoughts do not run you, you run your thoughts. From now on, your mind is not the captain of your ship, you are the captain of the ship, and your mind works for you.

What you hear, you forget; what you see, you remember; what you do, you understand.

Focus on all four of your net worth factors: increasing your income, increasing your savings, increasing your investment returns, and decreasing your cost of living by simplifying your lifestyle.

I will be rich or I will die trying.

The first rule of making progress in anything you do is setting goals, allowing yourself to always have a finish line in sight. This provides a boost in motivation during those moments when slogging forward seems impossible, giving you something tangible to work towards at every moment.

The secret to freedom is to realize that you don’t have to believe your mind. You don’t have to believe your story.

You will be paid in direct proportion to the value you create in the marketplace.

Comfort kills! If your goal in life is to be comfortable, I guarantee two things. First, you will never be rich. Second, you will never be happy.

Rich people focus on what they want, while poor people focus on what they don’t want.

If you don’t have the money management skills yet, using a debit card will ensure you don’t overspend and rack up debt on a credit card.

Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.

So, even though people don’t have a lot here, they are a lot richer in many ways and we can learn from that.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

China hasn’t only existed for one day. Now, the whole nation has become richer and it’s become a problem. The problem is universal. The factor is big. Everybody has to rethink the balance of the world and the whole landscape.

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

All the empirical evidence suggests that the rich tend to consume a lower proportion of income than middle and lower-income people.

The richer people, when they get another $100,000, or another million, or 10 million, don’t tend to spend it as much as the poorer people would if they got another $100 or $1,000 or $5,000.

As we realized we had richer, verite kind of people, what we wanted to do is focus in on the verite story.