Top 629 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Speakers - Page 10

The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge.

No economy, no matter how bad, can hold down a goal that is followed by enough action.

There is nothing wrong with having nice things, but when you are trying to buy nice things to be happy, you are going to hurt. It's not going to work.

The story that you tell yourself is exactly what holds you back from being successful.

You know, you don't need to grow old to die. I was dying at the age of 20 as a result of no direction and no purpose.

Get a millionaire mentor. Most of us were brought up middle class or poor and then hold ourselves to the limits and ideas of that group. I have been studying millionaires to duplicate what they did. Get your own personal millionaire mentor and study them. Most rich people are extremely generous with their knowledge and their resources.

A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness.

We have created a mindset in our society where everyone wants what they want when they want it. And if we don't get what we want when we want it, we feel ripped off. To make matters worse, we intensify our problems by continuously rehashing our woe-is-me story to the entire world. Whatever it is that has the potential to keep you from enjoying the day, understand that it's not the situation itself that is causing you to be unhappy. It's your thoughts and how you allow them to control you. It's what you choose to focus on that fuels your emotions and defines your reality.

There are always patterns in everything, there are patterns in books, there are patterns in human behavior, there are patterns in success, there are patterns for everything in life. You just need to pay attention to them.

Most people aren't unsuccessful in life because they don't know what to do. They are unsuccessful because they don't DO what they know how to do. Knowledge is power IF...you use it.

There’s no way to succeed in business without the highest ethical standards.

Here's the question I would ask you to consider; do you treat yourself the way you want other people to treat you?

The things we saw happen in the last four years of the Obama administration would all, or many of them, go away under a President Gingrich. It would be a huge setback.

New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture.

Never depend on one action.

Wealth is the progressive realization of worthy goals, the ability to love and have compassion, meaningful and caring relationships.

We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.

Success is the difference between where you are and where you could be

Don't tell yourself you don't need love just because it hasn't found you yet.

In reality, Mom just really hates me having short hair.

Average is a failing plan! Average doesn't work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention to will start to subside and will eventually cease to exist.

Most opportunities are disguised as problems.

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Our lives change when our habits change.

People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird's eye view and they don't create a systematic plan.

The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.

Who you become is infinitely more important than what you do, or what you have.

Too often we worry about how the others react-but it's YOUR reaction that they monitor.

Trust the process. Your time is coming. Just do the work and the results will handle themselves.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

The year I turned 26, as the head of my own brokerage firm, I made $49 million, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.

It's not enough to learn, one must become.

The way we see the world determines the way we live our lives

The world is full of men and women who work too much, sleep too little, hardly ever exercise, eat poorly, and are always struggling or failing to find adequate time with their families. We are in a perpetual hurry-constantly rushing from one activity to another, with little understanding of where all this activity is leading us. . . . The world has gone and got itself in an awful rush, to whose benefit I do not know. We are too busy for our own good. We need to slow down. Our lifestyles are destroying us. The worst part is, we are rushing east in search of a sunset.

To be fair, the collection business does have a few good people in it. But it also has those who will lie and make threats.

Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

Either make your money work for you or you will always have to work for your money.

Many people falsely believe that if you want to be holy, you are not allowed to enjoy life...Holiness brings us to life. It refines every human ability. Holiness doesn't dampen our emotions; it elevates them. Those who respond to God's call to holiness are the most joyful people in history. They have a richer, more abundant experience of life, and they love more deeply than most people can every imagine. They enjoy life, all of life.

It takes a little bit of mindfulness and a little bit of attention to others to be a good listener, which helps cultivate emotional nurturing and engagement.

Avoid debt that doesn’t pay you. Make it a rule that you never use debt that won’t make you money. I borrowed money for a car only because I knew it could increase my income. Rich people use debt to leverage investments and grow cash flows. Poor people use debt to buy things that make rich people richer.

Activist: not as much acting as it is reacting- which is my story

In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

The public buys the most at the top and the least at the bottom.

You grow stronger from failure than you do from success.

Money is like a jealous lover. Ignore it and it will ignore you, or worse, it will leave you for someone who makes it a priority.

Building trust is key to discovering and understanding your buyers' motives.

The challenge life presents to each of us is to become truly ourselves--not the self we have imagined or fantasized about, not the self that our friends want us to be, not the self our ego would have us be, but the self God has ordained us to be from before we were in our mother's womb.

Life will not make allowance for you, but it will pay you what you earn.

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

If you want to get attacked, have an opinion.

There's always a way - if you're committed.

There are still so many misconceptions out there, including that gays come from bad families. Maybe I don't completely change people's minds, but I make them think twice.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

A real relationship is like a river; the deeper it gets the less noise it makes.

Our essential purpose is to become the best version of ourselves.