“When you’re trying to achieve a goal, negative people will just bring you down. Surround yourself with the positive.”

Teaching kids about money is never just about money.

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.

Be an evangelist with your excellence.

If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don’t owe anyone an apology for winning.

If people in America would get their finances together and start taking care of each other, we could put the government out of business.

We’ve really got to stop looking to Washington to fix our problems. It obviously doesn’t have the ability to do that. People who are successful are not successful because of the president.

The paid-off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice.

Goals convert vision into ENERGY.

Wealth comes from hard work but not because of hard work. Wealth comes because of God. Everything is His.

Leading a family is the hardest job a man can ever have.

When I do something stupid with money and lose it, I call that Stupid Tax. I have paid so much Stupid Tax that I am expert.

Every person falls down at some point. Successful people choose to get back up!

Contentment is both the fruit and the tree.

It’s never too late to turn things around. You are the only obstacle.

A big part of being strong financially is that you know where you are weak and take action to make sure you don’t fall prey to the weakness. And we ALL are weak.

Financial peace isn’t the acquisition of stuff. It’s learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can’t win until you do this.

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

I just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement.

We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.

For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.

The furthest I have even thrown the ball was 85 yards. But I had a little wind at my back, so I don’t claim that one.

There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I’ve realized that it’s time for me to show my audience that you don’t have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect.