“Often, the more money you make the more money you spend; that’s why more money doesn’t make you rich – assets make you rich.”

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

If you’re lazy, don’t expect much in terms of success. You’re owed nothing and success will not be given to you. It’s earned.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

If you want to be rich, be friends with people who have the same mindset as you, or who at least won’t try to change your mindset to be more like theirs. Life is too short to spend time with people who don’t help you move forward.

Get your assets working for you so that your “ass” isn’t working for someone else.

The biggest trap, the biggest dungeon in life isn’t laziness or bad luck, it’s comfort.

It’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.

If you want to be rich, simply serve more people.

Before you invest in something, invest the time to understand it.

Don’t be afraid of your worst times. If you learn from them, you’ll look back on them as the best times.

Most people know how to set goals; few know how to achieve them.

We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.

It is easy to stay the same but it is not easy to change. Most people choose to stay the same all their lives.

Complaining about your current position in life is worthless. Have a spine and do something about it instead.

There is a good life waiting for you. Its just waiting for you to grab it

If you realize that you’re the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don’t blame other people for your problems.

One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.

A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

A tolerable expertness in military movements is a business that requires time and practice. It is not a day, or even a week, that will suffice for the attainment of it.

Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.

There are resources to help and simple steps that parents, preschools, businesses, and communities can take to help our kids succeed, because we’re all in this together, and that’s what the Too Small to Fail Initiative is all about.

My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.