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Opportunity is missed by many because it dresses in overall and looks like work. Thomas Edison
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Re: Favorite quote or money motivator?
"Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!" ~~Patsy Cline |
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On buying quality... There's an old honored saying among the wealthy (or so I hear): "Boats and coats. You only need one, make it the best." |
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"All day you wait for the pitch you like; then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it." -Legendary investor Warren Buffett, in Forbes, 1974
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Poor people give money and rich people give advice.
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<DT class=quote>"The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last." ~Evan Esar</DT>
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"Demeter, the divine right of kings, and magic doorways. Whether it's made from gold and silver or copper and zinc, money is only an abstraction, an idea, a necessary notion. Coins are money's gadget, a stage prop for the invisible hand of the market. Machinery makes metal into blanks, art makes blanks into coins, enchanted gates make coins into money, and as money ... the coins ... simply ... vanish." ~Donald Nichols
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"Adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit." ~~Ovidius
Add little to little and there will be a big heap (acervus). |
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"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." ~~Woodrow Wilson |
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“Interest never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes a vacation; it never visits nor travels; it takes no pleasure; it is never laid off work nor discharged from employment; it never works on reduced hours; it never has short crops nor droughts; it never pays taxes; it buys no food; it wears no clothes; it is unhoused and without home and so has no repairs, no replacements, no shingling, plumbing, painting, or whitewashing; it has neither wife, children, father, mother, nor kinfolk to watch over and care for; it has no expense of living; it has neither weddings nor births nor deaths; it has no love, no sympathy; it is as hard and soulless as a granite cliff. Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it; it yields neither to entreaties, demands, or orders; and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.” ~~J. Reuben Clark, Jr., from Bankruptcy, The Bitter Fruit of Debt April 1938 Which makes me think it is all the more reason to having it work FOR us, rather than against us, right?? Last edited by LuxLiving : 04-07-2007 at 12:31 PM. |
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I love this quote from Ben Franklin, I need to put it on my blog somewhere permanent.
“Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way.” Ben Franklin |
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If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain. ~ Dolly Parton
This fits into a lot of situations. If you want the new gizmo, you got to scrimp and save. If you want the new car, you may have to eat ramen more often! |
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"The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality." ~Cicero
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"Out of Debt, Out of Danger!" ~French proverb
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"Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions." ~~A.A. Latimer
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