Favorite quote or money motivator?

[puppypal]

Opportunity is missed by many because it dresses in overall and looks like work. Thomas Edison

[LuxLiving]

"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

[LuxLiving]

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."

[LuxLiving]

"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

[jIM_Ohio]

Poor people give money and rich people give advice.

[LuxLiving]

<DT class=quote>"The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last." ~Evan Esar</DT>

[LuxLiving]

"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

[LuxLiving]

"Adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit." ~~Ovidius

Add little to little and there will be a big heap (acervus).

[Jewelfine]

This is one of my favorites!

"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business." Michael J. Fox

[krayziebone33]

I love this thread.

[sakigt]

At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go in the same box.

[LuxLiving]

"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

[LuxLiving]

“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??

[baking23]

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

Waste Not,Want Not

[kateochang]

"It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune. And when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it."

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

[FrugalPixie]

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!

[LuxLiving]

"The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality." ~Cicero

[LuxLiving]

"Out of Debt, Out of Danger!" ~French proverb

[LuxLiving]

"Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions." ~~A.A. Latimer