Favorite quote or money motivator?

[LuxLiving]

"Few people have ever spent their way out of poverty. Those who escape do so through saving and investing for long-term goals." -Michael Sherraden, Director of the Center for Social Development

[simpleyme]

"you cannot borrow your way out of debt"
- Dave Ramsey

[LuxLiving]

CHANGE YOUR LIFESTYLE

"I wonder if the word "rich" will give people the wrong idea. I think that when people see a book that promises to make them rich, they believe that they'll wake up one day to find huge bags of cash have been delivered to their house. In other words, they want to get rich so they can change their lifestyle, instead of changing their lifestyle so they can get rich." ~Graham Powell, seen on a financial blog

[Bookie]

Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them, and not waited until the next year for better. - Edgar Watson Howe

[Bookie]

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. - Mark Twain

[LuxLiving]

"I think most of us here (SavingAdvice.com) help keep our backs strong and appropriately flexible by stooping to pick up pennies.

A penny a day keeps the chiropractor away.

Didn't Ben Franklin say that?"

~Joan of the Arch

[Bookie]

Good one.

[LuxLiving]

"For industry pays debts,
while despair encreaseth them."
~Benjamin Franklin

[Bookie]

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. - Benjamin Franklin

[LuxLiving]

on moving too often...

"Three removes is as bad as a fire." ~Benjamin Franklin

[LuxLiving]

"I have found that tightwaddery is about not hardship and deprivation, but fun and creativity." ~Amy Dacyczyn, author of the Tightwad Gazette in 3 volumes

[LuxLiving]

"If you ignore everyone else, you can concentrate on what you do and spend. People spend with peers, but they save all by themselves. Funny that." ~Baselle, SavingAdvice.com blogger

[LuxLiving]

Warren Buffett's dictum, "Be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others are greedy."

[LuxLiving]

"I always looked at cheap as just that. In other words, of less quality. I look as frugal as smart, as in, 'Why spend more than you have to, while not compromising quality?' " -Mark, commentor at Get Richly Slowly blog

[HNorton]

"Don't worry if I write rhymes, I write checks" --Diddy

[HNorton]

"Romance without Finance is a Damn Nuisance" -- Anon

[simpleyme]

"A succesful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him"
--David Brinkley

[LuxLiving]

"It used to be only death and taxes were inevitable. Now, of course, there's shipping and handling, too." ~~??

[syracusa]

Originally Posted by simpleyme

"When I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive work or contributing anything to society,my reaction is, How do I get in on that ?"
Dave Barry

Arggh...I can't help reviving this thread even though it's old.
MOST vast fortunes are made by NOT doing productive work or contributing anything of real value to society. Work that contributes real value to society brings little money.
But then again, this is a B***h of a life, the unfair kind. Everyone knows that by now.

[syracusa]

And favorite money quote:

"There is no greater dignity than living below your means".

I don't remember who said it but I read it in one of Andrew Tobias' books.