“You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount.”

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.

Rich people think BIG. Poor people think small.

Remember, your motto is, if they can do it, I can do it!

In my experience, getting rich takes focus, courage, knowledge, expertise, 100 percent of your effort, a never-give-up attitude and of course a rich mind-set.

It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.

Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.

It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

It’s absolutely wrong to see all of these large corporations folding into basically what the Democrats want, and that’s kissing the ring.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or in large orchestras where a little noise more or less makes no difference.

To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no doubt be the large areas covered by oceanic water.

I’ve turned down shows offering large amounts of money.