Living paycheck-to-paycheck has little to do with the size of the paycheck.
— Mary Hunt, Debt-Proof Your Marriage

“My parents never taught me about money” is a commonly-expressed explanation for people’s financial dilemmas.  The fact is that all of us were taught by the financial behaviors modeled for us by our parents.  The first things most of us learned was that you rarely talk about money, but when you do, you “talk” about […]

The truth is that money mystifies us.  We just don’t know what we really believe about money.  We can’t live with it, yet we can’t live without it.  We want more of it even though spending more of it won’t make us any happier.  The typical American spends 50 percent of his waking hours thinking […]

If you have courage, you can win. You don’t have to be the fastest, the smartest.  You have to have tenacity.
— William Gilmore, Jr.

Money is always on its way somewhere.  What we do with it while it’s in our keeping says much about us.
— Rosalie Maggio

Most people have it all wrong about wealth in America.  Wealth is not the same as income.  If you make a good income each year and spend it all, you are not getting wealthier.  You are just living high.  Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend.
— Thomas Stanley, Ph.D., and William Danko, The Millionaire […]

My national surveys of millionaires have taught me that if you believe you can succeed, the probabilities are greatly enhanced that you will reach or even exceed your goals.  The millionaires often indicated that “believing in myself” is a proactive tactic or thought process that works when they employ it.  They utilize this process when fear […]

I advise that you take the wisdom of Algamish and say to yourselves, “A part of all I earn is mine to keep.”  Say it in the morning when you first arise.  Say it at noon.  Say it at night.  Say it each hour of every day.  Say it to yourself until the words stand […]

You are worth what you saved, not the millions you made.
— John Boyle O’Reilly

Now I shall tell thee the first remedy I learned to cure a lean purse.  Do exactly as I have suggested to the egg merchant: For every ten coins thou placest within thy purse, take out for use but nine.  Thy purse will start to fatten at once and its increasing weight will feel good […]