“Wealth gained by dishonesty will be diminished, but he who gathers by labor will increase.”

You can get anywhere if you simply go one step at a time.

Financial Security is not enough money to buy toys. That is to learn to live with less money than you earn. So, you can help other individuals or investors. You are not a winner until done it.

Poor is a state of mind. Broke is, ‘I’m just passing through.’

Doing a budget means learning an ancient and powerful word: NO.

Nothing happens without focus. Don’t try to do everything at once. Take it one step at a time.

Surround yourself with people who add the fuel of advice and encouragement to your fire.

Investing is important, but get debt-free first. That’s what frees up your income so you can win.

Be very proud of what you do, and if you aren’t then change it.

You can’t work three hours a week and make $100,000. Get rich quick doesn’t work. Crock pot mentality always defeats microwave mentality!

If you come with mercy but not justice; that’s called enabling.

Earning a lot of money is not the key to prosperity. How you handle it is.

Debt gives you the ability to look like you’re winning when you’re not.

We learned early on that if we help enough people, the money will come.

Do not let your life, ministry or organization go faster than your resources.

A lower interest rate doesn’t make a debt go away.

I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us.

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.

God loves us beyond comprehension, and we cannot diminish God’s love for us.

The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.

Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

He is living on a diminishing hope that good things await him in the future. A hope that promises a sense of contentment even though the scars from the past might never fade away.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, – will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, – or to diminish something of their pains.

The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.

For today’s generation of blacks to act as if their struggle compares to that of two generations ago insults and diminishes that generation’s struggle.