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

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

I know you think you’ll feel better if you buy a new shirt, buy a new blouse or go get your hair done because you’re feeling down a bit; life’s gotten to you.  But, the truth is, if you have $500 in your savings account, then you’ve got self-esteem, because that’s the one thing you […]

… And I hope you will come back here to Harvard 30 years from now and reflect on what you have done with your talent and your energy. I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world’s deepest inequities — on how well […]

Our society thrives on materialism, cashing in on the sin of covetousness.  Its modus operandi is to create within our hearts a longing for the things we do not have.  Not only a longing, but also an attitude of need and entitlement.  We need it.  We deserve it.  Especially if someone else has it.
— Alistair […]

It’s like I’ve said, “I’ve been broke a lot of times, but I’ve never been poor.” My mother taught me to put some money aside for a rainy day. But our industry is the worst in the world for money — same with athletes. After I played a benefit concert to pay for my friend’s medical […]

The problem with Americans is that they act and spend as if they are rich before they actually ARE rich.
— Economist interviewed in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance

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

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

Learning is, after all, not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before to apply to other games.  Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
— Richard Bach

You drive the car, the $400,000 car around the corner, and park it and instantly the thrill goes away. You find it’s a waste of money. And no matter how big your house is, you can only sit your ass in one seat at a time.
— Russell Simmons, entrepreneur and producer, Def Jam records

For financial stuff I always listened to my father, a Republican investment banker.  He told me if I always pay my bills with one-third, save one-third and screw around with the last third, I’ll be okay, no matter how much I earn.  It’s the one thing he said that I listened to, and I have […]