Favorite quote or money motivator?

[LuxLiving]

"Time is your friend;
impulse is your enemy."
~John 'Jack' Bogle, on investing.

[kork13]

"I can't be out of money... I still have more checks!"

-Popular Bumper Sticker

...wait...

[LuxLiving]

"Paying off debt is not the same as accumulating assets." ~Steven Marshall

[LuxLiving]

"These days more than ever before, just because you qualify for a mortgage doesn't mean that you can afford the monthly payments. It's a sobering fact that 100 percent of the owners of the houses now in foreclosure once qualified for a mortgage." ~Suze Orman, The Laws of Money, pg. 124

[LuxLiving]

"The mint makes it first,
it is up to you to
make it last." ~Evan Esar


The United States Mint Home

[syracusa]

Originally Posted by LuxLiving

<!--StartFragment -->"I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes." ~Edward Gibbon

Superb!

[syracusa]

"Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it."

Coco Chanel

[syracusa]

OK. More...

Someone here on the forum called me at some point an "arrogant European". Well...the "arrogant European" has noticed that there are few money quotes here from ...well... Europeans. Going beyond Benjamin Franklin, here are a few dear to my heart, not all of whom are from Europeans, but many are.

1. I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.
Romain Rolland 1866-1944, French Writer

2. I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

3. The only reason to have money is to tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.
Humphrey Bogart
*This one is very American, all the way to the bone!

4. Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.
Ernest Haskins

5. I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test. Unknown...but it sounds European to me.

6. Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

7. Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.
Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German Philosopher

8. Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it. Fannie Hurst

9. You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.
Jean Kerr

10. One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1918-, Russian Novelist

[LuxLiving]

"The Wise Pig.
Save a Penny Yesterday,
Another Today.
Tomorrow Save Another to
Keep the Wolf Away."
~seen on a Wise Pig
Thrifty Savings Bank

[LuxLiving]

"The foundation stone of
wealth accumulation is
defense, and this defense should be
anchored by budgeting and planning."
~T.J. Stanley & W.D. Danko,
The Millionaire Next Door

[Finally Frugal]

This one's on my site:

"Normal" is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, the car, and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it"

Ellen Goodman

It reminds me that the more I spend, the longer and harder I have to work. Decrease spending, decrease working (eventually). . . .

[syracusa]

Originally Posted by Finally Frugal

This one's on my site:

"Normal" is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, the car, and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it"

Ellen Goodman

It reminds me that the more I spend, the longer and harder I have to work. Decrease spending, decrease working (eventually). . . .

LOVE IT! This is especially true today when so much of the work available to the average Joe is empty, unmeaningful, bureaucratic drudgery and paper shuffling. I found this kind of ccupations to be much more life-draining and depressing than working the fields (I used to do this as a kid in my parents' workplace as they were agronomists).
If only people still worked their land, or some craft or some meaningful occupation that would allow them to see the fruits of their labor in front of their eyes, working long and hard may not even be all that bad.

But having been in "office-type" jobs I know what a horrific drudgery they are and how any normal person would just dream to never have to do it again, if only they could.

Looking forward to going back to the profession I love this fall...

[LuxLiving]

"Labor is the great producer of wealth: it moves all other causes." ~Daniel Webster

[LuxLiving]

"Interest has its justification in the right of property. If a man can claim the ownership of any kind of wealth, he is the owner of all it fairly produces.

Past labor has all the sacredness of present labor, and as justly claims its reward.

An associate in production, it is entitled to a share in the product. Whoever by labor produces wealth, and by self-denial preserves it, should be allowed all the benefit that wealth can render in future production.

This is the only condition upon which the largest accumulation of wealth can be secured; it presents the only motive that can withstand the impulse to immediate gratification.

The desire to gain and the desire to spend are both in human nature, and are conflicting passions. What one takes, the other must relinquish.

If, therefore, the desire to spend is unchecked, all wealth and physical well-being disappear in riot and wastefulness.

There is the further consideration, that, since to loan capital is to incur risk, that risk should be compensated." ~Amasa Walker, The Science of Wealth

[LuxLiving]

"He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread." ~Daniel Webster

[LuxLiving]

"The sting of low quality far outlasts the thrill of getting a good price." ~unknown

[LuxLiving]

" If you are a long-term, low-turnover, tax-managed and tax-efficient indexer (congratulations), Uncle Sam and most state governors will be sad to hear that you have kept your taxes to the absolute minimum." ~Index Fund Advisors, Inc.

[responduser]

"We are the trustees of what funds we are temporarily given on this earth. May we share those with others."
-- Andrew Carnegie

[LuxLiving]

"Respectability is all very well for folks who can have it for ready money: but to be obliged to run into debt for it? -- It's enough to break the heart of an angel." ~~D. Jerrold

[LuxLiving]

"Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold." ~~Maurice Seitter