Favorite quote or money motivator?

[LuxLiving]

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"The standard scenario for governments badly in deficit is simply to print more money. Inflation is the result and is nothing more (or less) than a relentless tax that needs no congressional approval." ~Andrew Tobias, The Only OTHER Investment Guide You'll Ever Need, pg. 105

[scfr]

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This quote applies to lots of things, including money:
"Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labelled 'file and forget'." ~Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man

[LuxLiving]

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"A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it." ~William Feather

[LuxLiving]

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"I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok." ~Shaquille O'Neal

[LuxLiving]

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on Money as master:

"Somewhere, right around the time I finished school, my thoughts about money changed in a bad way. It started using me instead of me using it. " ~~Personal History of Money, SavingAdvice.com blogger <!-- -->

[tinapbeana]

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Almost anything is easier to get into that out of ~ can't remember, but it applies to absolutely everything

Getting rich was easy. My brothers and I chose our parents wisely before we were born. ~ Steve Forbes speech at Zig Zigler's Get Motivated seminar this August

How 'bout I run up and down the road yellin' "Ain't that cheap, ain't that cheap" ~ my mother, anytime she finds what is admittedly a great price on something but it is still outside of her budget

[LuxLiving]

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"A lot of money is tainted. 'Taint yours and 'taint mine." ~~????

[Bookie]

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[Snip] I remember when I first vowed to get back on financial track. I started out by holding a simple $20 bill in my hand and said, "This is the beginning of my future. This is going to be the start of something truly awe-inspiring!" And that's all I had to my name, whilst I sat on the mountain of mess that was my finances. $20 may not seem like a lot to anyone else, but to me, it was something I've never had before.

This was part of a blog comment, and I thought it deserved quotation.

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[piggybank4]

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This is a fairly famous quote from one of President Woodrow Wilson's books called "the New Freedom"

“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the U.S., in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”

Another good one:

"The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear."
--Herbert Agar

[piggybank4]

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And another:

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

[LuxLiving]

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oooooooooooooh, that's a good one piggybank4!

[thekid]

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This is a fairly famous quote from one of President Woodrow Wilson's books called "the New Freedom"

“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the U.S., in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”

What was he referring to?

[tinapbeana]

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What was he referring to?

sounds like the military-industrial complex before the term had actually been coined.

have i mentioned lately that i love wikipedia? between it and the magic 8 ball, i feel like i could know everything!

[thekid]

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sounds like the military-industrial complex before the term had actually been coined.

have i mentioned lately that i love wikipedia? between it and the magic 8 ball, i feel like i could know everything!

Lol! Well they are both very similar sources of information. We are not quite sure where their info comes from, but like saussage making, it is best to not look too deeply into that and just enjoy the results. After WWI, Wilson himself is known for having taken his famous 14 points from his magic 8 balls as a way to stop all world conflicts. Seems to have worked.

[LuxLiving]

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"The secret of making money is saving it. It is not what a man earns - Not the amount of his income, but the relation of his expenditures to his receipts, that determines his poverty or wealth." ~~Unattributed, in Charlie E. Jones, Quotes Are Tremendous, pg. 180