“Goals are visions and dreams with work clothes on.”

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.

If you help enough people, you don’t have to worry about money.

Work-get paid; don’t work-don’t get paid. Everybody is on commission.

Making mistakes and learning from them is crucial to winning.

We live in a culture full of hares; but the tortoise always wins.

Fear is the enemy of hope.

Contentment may be the most powerful Financial Principle. You can give more, avoid debt, and live better.

Feeling lost? Take a dream and convert it into small goals, then start taking the steps to hit those goals.

Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it every day. Diligence is doing it well every day.

Money… is like a beautiful thoroughbred horse – very powerful & always in action, but unless this horse is trained when very young, it will be an out-of-control & dangerous animal when it grows to maturity.

You don’t build wealth with credit card rewards and airline miles. You can’t beat the credit card companies at their own game.

Study the habits of the people you want to be like and then imitate them. If they are succeeding, they must be doing something right.

Good things that cannot be calculated or quantified are set in motion in your life and in your finances when you give.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who execute them are not.

I would not pre-pay. I would invest instead and let the investments cover it.

Bridal is always about who you are as a person and as a woman and as a lover and as a mate. People always ask me how a woman can pick just one dress. And the funny thing is they always know.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

I do think I know more about clothes than any 500 designers, because there’s nothing like wearing them. You buy them, you study them, and you start to understand how they’re crafted.

I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.

People get very trapped where they are. When they hear ‘fashion’ they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it’s so elitist.

The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin–the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.

When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn’t find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That’s when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.

Ready-to-wear is what I’ve wanted to do since the beginning. I’m not a girl who spends my life in a ballgown