Wednesday, December 4, 2024
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Wednesday, December 4, 2024 |
"Success is defined by oneself
by setting attainable goals and reaching them." "The credit card companies have put
the loan sharks out of business." "Banks made mistakes in lending,
which got the economy in this whole mess. Their latest ingenious
decision is to get rid of their best customers and their most
profitable accounts." "When my girlfriend asks for a
bracelet made out of paper, I'll know paper is as good as gold!" "Prosperity is a way of living
and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of
living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things." "If the American people only
understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there
would be a revolution before morning." "There is no class of people in the
world, who have such good memories as creditors." "When written in Chinese, the
word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger
and the other represents opportunity." "You don't need no credit card to
ride this train." "Life will pay whatever price you ask
of it." "Those who understand interest earn
it; those who don't, pay it." "New Rules for the Game of Life: (1)
If I give my best effort, then I am successful; (2) If I don't try,
then I have failed; (3) If I learn something new, then I have
succeeded; (4) If I am having fun, then I can access more of my
abilities; (5) If I take action consistently, then I increase my
chances of success." "I will help you as long as you help
yourself. When you stop helping yourself, I stop helping you." "Action is the foundational key to
all success. Knowing is not enough! Lots of people know what to do,
but few people actually do what they know." "I paid the bank note, the car note,
an' yes, I paid the 'phone bill too. An' then I turned around an' I
found that the house note's due. Well, I'd love to take you out like
I said I would, honey, But there's too much month at the end of the
money." Talking about debt
collectors..."One guy called me everyday last week. I said,
'Look, every month I put everyone I owe into a hat, I pick three
names, I pay those people. And if you call me one more time I'm
taking you out of the hat.' They all want to be in the
hat." "God's dream is that you have an
abundance, that you be totally out of debt, pay your house off, pay
your credit cards off, and have so much overflow that you can be a
blessing to everyone around you!" "Stretch your leg only as far as your
blanket." "God wants us to prosper financially,
to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for
us." "Wisest is he who knows he knows
not." "Credit card companies have been
using unfair and deceptive practices to trick Americans into signing
agreements they can't afford. "Every moment wasted looking back
keep us from looking forward." "We cannot change the cards we are
dealt; just how we play the hand." "Credit-Card-Itis: A documented
syndrome resulting in pain in the rear that runs down the thigh due
to pressure on a nerve from a wallet stuffed with credit cards." "A mistake is a future benefit, the
full value of which is yet to be realized." "When you’re driving, your foot is
connected to your wallet. The faster you step down, the more money
comes out of your wallet." "If medical science continues to
prolong life, some of us may eventually pay off the mortgage." "It saves a lot of trouble if,
instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and
borrow it." "O money, money, money. I'm not necessarily one
of those who think thee holy, but I often stop to wonder how thou canst go out
so fast when thou comest in so slowly." "I have never been in a situation where having money made it
worse." "Develop success from failures.
Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to
success." "The way to learn to do things is to
do things. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with determination
to succeed, and the work is half done already." "Money doesn't always bring
happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than
people with nine million dollars." "The greatest discovery is that
a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of
mind." "It's God's will for you to live in
prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your
bills and not be in debt." "I am a great believer in luck,
and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." "One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind." "A bank is a place where they
lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it
begins to rain." "Life is like riding a bicycle. To
keep your balance you must keep moving." "If you have a computer, then you
should be using financial software." "Be sure you know a person well
before you vouch for his credit. Better refuse than to suffer
later." "When the student is ready the
teacher will appear." "A day of worry is more exhausting
than a week of work." "You feel stuck with your debt if you
can't budge it." "The only way to beat the banks is to
make them fight for your business!" "Divorce sucks. Let me tell you,
after five years of marriage for me it is devastating to have the
person with the good credit move out." "Before deciding what you want to do,
I would ask how you want to live." "There's a fine line between, 'oh,
that's cute' and 'I have to have that now.'" "It is well to be up before daybreak,
for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom." "Creating a budget is much easier
than sticking to one." "Never use the word 'can't' because you can, you just haven't
done it yet." "Only those who dare to fail greatly,
can ever achieve greatly." "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a
hamburger today." "My very first credit card--today I'm
a woman!" "Restless is discontent and
discontent is the first necessity of progress." "The hardest thing in the world to
understand is income tax." "One decision can change your life
forever." "To a normal person, $10 million will
seem like enough. But anyone who thinks that's enough is not the
type that can acquire that much in the first place." "Bad questions get bad answers." "I've traveled all over the world and
America is the easiest place to get rich." "Forget the fat lady--it ain't over
until the check clears!" "The large print giveth, and the
small print taketh away." "Far better to dare mighty things, to
win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to
take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer
much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory,
nor defeat." "Instead of focusing on the amount of
money lacking in your budget, focus on what you DO have: a willing
spirit, an imagination filled with bright ideas, people who care
about you and can perhaps help you in some way. These are the things
that will enable you to do almost anything." "The greatest revelation of my
generation is the discovery that by changing the inner attitudes of
your mind, you can change the outer aspect of your life." "Lend less than you owe." "What lies behind us and what lies
before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." "All things are difficult before they
are easy." "I don't want to see a game of
checkers; I want to see a game of chess." "Good judgment comes from experience,
and experience comes from bad judgment." "Living modestly and being happy with
what you have--therein lies the success of saving." "Financial success is having control
over your finances rather than having your finances in control of
you." "If you would like to know the value
of money, go and try to borrow some." "Live every day with an attitude of
gratitude." "Organization is the key to success
with anything." "Money is just the poor man's credit
card." "People are not persuaded by what we
say, but rather by what they understand." "If you talk about it, it's a dream.
If you envision it, it's possible. But if you schedule it, it's
real." "If you find yourself in a hole,
the best thing to do is stop digging." "Control your destiny, or
someone else will!" "Change is inevitable; struggle
is an option." "A large income is the best
recipe for happiness I ever heard of." "You can have my credit card,
baby, but keep your red hot fingers off of my heart, lady." "Never spend your money before
you have it." "Money was never a big
motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real
excitement is playing the game." "Too many men work on parts of
things; doing a job to completion satisfies me." "If you look at what you do not
have in life, you don't have anything. If you look at what you have
in life, you have everything." "If you control your credit
cards, you control your future." "Lack of money is no obstacle.
Lack of an idea is an obstacle." "Creditors have better memories
than debtors." Albert Einstein said, "in the middle of adversity lies opportunity." It has also been state "you can tell the size of the goal by the number of obstacles you have overcome." "Lack of money is the root of
all evil." "Many receive advice, only the
wise profit from it." "Borrow money from
pessimists—they don't expect it back." "You put your signature on
everything you do in life." "Work your plan and plan to
work. You only fail if you quit." "The biggest obstacle in life is
yourself...overcome it and you will achieve the greatest
accomplishment of all." "You don't have to be rich,
you just have to know where you stand." "Every family has a choice of
keeping up with the neighbors or the creditors." "While shopping, you'll find
that it's far easier to put something in the basket than it is to
remove it from the basket." "Wealthier is
healthier." "Even though I have no debt,
lack of funds is initially why so many people can't pull through
with their dreams, and I am not prepared to accept that." "Like other forms of stealing,
identity theft leaves the victim poor and feeling terribly
violated." "You can't really have a happy
life without having a healthy financial life." "There are no great limits to
growth because there are no limits of human intelligence,
imagination, and wonder." "The only preparation for
tomorrow is the right use of today." "Winning isn't everything. The
will to win is everything." "Only I can change my life. No
one can do it for me." "There is only one boss, the
customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the
chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere
else." "It's not the size of the dog in
the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." "If you don't know where you're
going, then any path will get you there." "I feel like the luckiest girl
in the world. And I had no idea I could be this happy without
incurring credit card debt." "Wisdom is not a product of
schooling but of the life-long attempt to acquire it." "Achievement seems to be
connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They
make mistakes, but they don't quit." "Lack of money is the root of
all evil." "If money is your hope for
independence you will never have it. The only real security that a
man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience,
and ability." MONEY ISN'T EVERYTHING: "But
it's reasonably close to oxygen!" "My credit is horrible. They
won't even take my cash!" "Work is a surefire money-making
scheme." "i hate those people who love to
tell you "My problem lies in reconciling
my gross habits with my net income." "If thou lend money to any of My
people,...thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye
lay upon him interest." "In times of change, the
learners inherit the earth and the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer
exists." "Insurance companies make money
when you pay them; not when they pay you." "Most choices are driven by
immediate results." "We can't stop the waves, but we
can learn to surf." "The passion for money is never
fickle." "If there is no consequence,
there is no change." "If you have an understanding of
your passion, you have an understanding of life." "It is not the critic who
counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or
how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit
belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is
marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who
errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great
enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy
cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and
who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his
place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know
neither victory nor defeat." "You have to think outside of
conventional wisdom to break through your debt." "Courage is simply the
willingness to be afraid and act anyway." "Courage is doing what you are
afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." "I urge you to plan your work
and then work your plan. I urge you to let no obstacle get in your
way of accomplishing your plan. Either go around it, over it, or
through it. But don't turn around and go back. You do not retreat.
You do not quit." "Consumer spending accounts for
about 70 percent of our economy. It has been the driving force of
our recovery. Yet there are warning signs I won't ignore, and I hope
the Congress doesn't ignore either. Many Americans live in constant
and increasing personal debt, with credit card bills so heavy they
often cannot pay much more than the monthly minimum. Millions of
citizens spend their entire adult lives living paycheck-to-paycheck,
never getting a chance to save for their children's education or
their own retirement. Americans today are paying about a third of
their income in taxes. All of this puts pressure on family budget,
and therefore clouds our economic future." Below from White House Briefing on
1/6/2003: "Failure is never final and
success is never-ending. Success is a journey, not a
destination." "When you give more than people
expect, you get more than you expected." "The secret of success is to be
ready when your opportunity comes." "I say 'try'; if we never try,
we shall never succeed." "I'm living so far beyond my
income that we may almost be said to be living apart." Jonathan Kent: "Clark Kent, you
stole from us!" "Destiny is not a matter of
chance, it is a matter of choice." "When you change what you
believe, you change what you do." "When you move beyond your fear,
you feel free." "In the middle of difficulty
lies opportunity." "Worrying about it (your
financial situation) won't help, only action will!" "The greatest discovery is that
a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of
mind." "In times of distress,
strengthen your heart." "It's not having what you want,
it's wanting what you've got." "Champions believe in
themselves, even when others do not." "Borrowing money from a friend is
like sex—it completely changes the relationship!" "Beautiful credit! The
foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the
golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human
promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a
whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the
familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a
distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: "I
wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of
dollars."" "I have been through some
terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened." "We are what we think. All that
we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our
world." "It's (the Metropolis Mall) like
some kind of temple." "I hear and I forget. "If a man empties his purse into
his head, no man can take away from him. An investment in knowledge
always pays the best interest." "Neither a borrower or lender
be, "Do not be made a beggar by
banqueting upon borrow, "Home life ceases to be free and
beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt." "The surest way to ruin a man
who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some." "Dreading that climax of all
human ills, "It is very iniquitous to make
me pay my debts; "Who goeth a borrowing "The human species, according to
the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races,
the men who borrow and the men who lend." "A creditor is worse than a
slave-owner; "A good debt is not as good as
no debt." "There's also consumer debt, the
credit card debt that burdens many of the working families in
America. Yes, we talk about national debt, and we're paying a lot
down. But you're fixing to hear me tell you part of the remedy for
people who have got a lot of credit card debt is to make sure people
get some of their own money back." |
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