I am a big fan of quotes…
Short, powerful, and to the point!
To help keep you on track you should write down a list of your favorite personal finance quotes and post them somewhere you will see them everyday. In the bathroom, on your fridge, on the ceiling above your bed…
Here are just a few of my favorites. Perhaps some of them can be your favorites too!
“How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant” – Mark Twain
“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.” -Bertrand Russell
“It’s hard for bad things to happen when you have no debt.” -Howard Lutnick, CEO of Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald
“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.” – Henry David Thoreau
“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.” – Jonathan Swift
“A man in debt is so far a slave.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.” – Lucretius
“Know what you own, and know why you own it.” – Peter Lynch
“Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.” – P.T. Barnum
“Never spend your money before you have it.” – Thomas Jefferson
“The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.” – Sir Henry Taylor
“Save a part of your income and begin now, for the man with a surplus controls circumstances and the man without a surplus is controlled by circumstances.” – Henry Buckley
“Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The first wealth is health.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This is our 43rd challenge in The Personal Finance Challenge Series…