Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness.  Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

Debt robs a man of his self-respect and makes him almost despise himself.
— P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting

The first rule of all enterprise is to know a solid value when you see it.  The second rule is to be able to act on an opportunity when it arises.  If your neighbor suddenly decides to sell his extra building for 50 percent of its true value but only if he can have cash in twenty-four […]

If you travel ten miles left when you should have gone ten miles right, you’ve made a thirty-mile mistake:  the ten miles you went in the wrong direction, the ten miles you have to go back to get to where you started from, and then the ten miles you have to go to get to […]

The only thing in the world you can change is yourself, and that makes all the difference in the world.
— Cher

Just because you have believed something for a long time or have convinced yourself that you just “are” a certain way doesn’t even almost make it true.  You have to be willing to challenge virtually every single thing you have ever believed about yourself. …Remember:  A lie unchallenged becomes the truth.
— Phil McGraw, Ph.D., Self […]

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
— Joseph Addison

What is the one bold stroke through which you can help out the entire nation and at the same time make yourself feel empowered?  Simple:  Collect as many credit cards as you can, and max them out.
— Ben Stein, How to Ruin Your Financial Life