“Never try to pull someone up who doesn’t want it…they’ll just pull you down.”

You design the life you want to have.

You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses.

Every master was once a disaster.

Rich people choose to get paid based on results. Poor people choose to get paid based on time.

For the next seven days, I challenge you not to complain at all.

Complaining is the absolute worst possible thing you could do for your health or your wealth. The worst!

If we’re going to strive for spiritual growth, we have to be willing to put concepts into practice in our everyday lives, in all relationships with all people. You can’t separate your “spiritual life” from your “work life.” They’re both your life! In the same vein, you can’t separate money and happiness.

In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, it’s what’s under the ground that creates what’s above the ground. That’s why placing your attention on the fruits that you have already grown is futile.

If you want to move to a new level in your life, you must break through your comfort zone and practice doing things that are not comfortable.

Rich people take advice from people who are richer than they are. Poor people take advice from their friends, who are just as broke as they are.

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.

The water of God’s grace cannot collect on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.

I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?

If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-

Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.

An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive

I try to make myself do things for other people when I’m feeling down. Like, you can call your local hospital and help out in the pediatric unit.

Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.

The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various ‘individuals’, or groups of ‘individuals’