“If you have $10,000 sitting in a savings or checking account earning only 1.0 percent annually when it could be earning 4.5 percent, you are cheating yourself out of $450 a year in interest. The way I see it, that's a plane ticket to Hawaii or a fancy dream night out on the town or more money in your retirement account! In other words, that so-called free checking account at the bank really isn't. Quite the contrary, it's costing you a fortune.”
Source: Smart Women Finish Rich: 9 Steps to Achieving Financial Security and Funding Your Dreams
“There is nothing that will "fix" a bad credit report except the passage of time and a consistent record of responsible bill-paying, and you contacting the credit-report companies and working with them to get your credit record clean.”
Source: Smart Women Finish Rich: 9 Steps to Achieving Financial Security and Funding Your Dreams
“If I can’t get your love, time, money, hope, and positivity, don’t thrash me with your desperation, anxiety, negativity, criticism, or unsolicited advice.”
Source: Quantraz
“Fastest Storm by Stewart Stafford
The fastest storm fell over us,
A rapid drop down a lift shaft,
The moon's spotlight blocked,
Wrapped tight in venomousness.
And under a wicked hand fallen,
The venal and honourable in flux,
A pantheon of money and might,
Gloved hand night clawed larceny.
The storm passed, fading into folklore,
Only by swift valour blocking knavery,
Clouds parted, cataracts cleared eyes,
A renaissance spark became an inferno.
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
“Money attracts money like a magnet. It doesn’t trickle down. It is sucked up.”
Source: Operation Jihadi Bride: The Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS
“I believe any discussion about money and finances needs to start with understanding your own money mindset and attitudes toward your finances.”
Source: Autism and Your Family Finances: How families with autistic children can take control of their money, build wealth and secure their child’s future
“Getting control of our emotions and improving our financial attitudes are key to financial success. If you let negative emotions interfere with your personal finances, then you will avoid taking steps to improve your finances.”
Source: Autism and Your Family Finances: How families with autistic children can take control of their money, build wealth and secure their child’s future
“High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.
Where never lark, or even eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
- Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.”
“Who are the aristocrats now — who are chosen as the best to rule? Those who have money and the brains for money. It doesn’t matter what else they have: but they must have money-brains — because they are ruling in the name of money.” “The people elect the government,” he said. “I know they do. But what are the people? Each one of them is a money-interest.”
Source: The Rainbow
“It's not luck - there's probably no such thing as luck, and if there is you can't depend on it. All you can do is play the percentages, play your best game, and when the critical bet comes - in every money game there is always a critical bet - you hold your stomach tight and you push hard. That's the clutch. And that's where your born loser loses”
Source: The Hustler