Quotes About Wealth

Money is a good servant but a bad master. —SIR FRANCIS BACON

You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it. —TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

when you seek Significance, you're always comparing yourself with someone else. And there's always someone bigger, taller, stronger, faster, richer, funnier, younger, more handsome, more beautiful, with a bigger yacht, a nicer car, a nicer home.

And this real-world approach is called the dollar-weighted return.

As the saying goes, if what you learn leads to knowledge, you become a fool; but if what you learn leads to action, you can become wealthy.

I will tell you, though, if you won't give a dime out of a dollar, you won't give $1 million out of $10 million. The time to give is now! When I had nothing, I began this process. The reward is that if you give, even at the times when you think you have very little, you'll teach your brain that there is more than enough. You can leave scarcity behind and move toward a world of abundance.

That's the whole secret: earn more, spend less, and automate it.

Investing is 95% luck and 5% skill. And maybe if I'm wrong, it's 98 and 2.

by the way, you'll never hear them referred to as "brokers." They are called registered representatives, financial advisors, wealth advisors, vice president of this, that, or the other thing.

The secret to wealth is simple: Find a way to do more for others than anyone else does. Become more valuable. Do more. Give more. Be more. Serve more. And you will have the opportunity to earn more—whether

Asset allocation, where to park your money and how to divide it up, is the single most important skill of a successful investor.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. —AYN RAND

diversify across time. And that's what dollar-cost averaging does for you.

Here's an example that might prove valuable to you: a friend of mine recently bought a New York City bond where he's getting a 4% return tax free—which, for someone in a high tax bracket, is the equivalent of an approximately 7% return in a taxable bond!

You can also lose everything you've saved and invested. So whatever you put in your Risk/Growth Bucket, you have to be prepared to lose a portion or even all of it if you don't have protective measures in place.

Financial Freedom would mean you're independent, you've got everything you have today, plus two or three significant luxuries you want in the future, and you don't have to work to pay for them either.

Remember, the goal is to take emotion out of investing because emotion is what so often destroys investing success

The secret to wealth is simple: Find a way to do more for others than anyone else does. Become more valuable. Do more. Give more. Be more. Serve more.

wealth creation is not an end in and of itself but is a crucial aspect of achieving a purposeful life

Just like in that old Rolling Stones song, time is on your side when it comes to growing your wealth. And time is certainly the greatest asset for the Security Bucket—even if you start later in life.

it's not what you earn that matters, it's what you keep.

We all know that asset allocation is the most important part of our success

Don't spend it all in one place!

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. —MARCUS AURELIUS Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. —AYN RAND