“Some people are blessed with a well-paid job, but are cursed with an irresistible urge to give others the impression that they are well paid, through things such as their clothes, car, and place of residence.”
“Developing a wealthy mind-set requires the understanding of the concept that the way you spend, invest, and manage ten naira is the way you will spend, invest, and manage ten million.”
“A man under debt not only loses the peace but also the people.”
“Everything costs money,’ Ham said. ‘ But, what is money? A physical representation of the abstract concept of effort.”
“Kesetiaan dengan uang bukanlah kesetiaan yang bertahan lama.”
“For to go as a passenger you must needs have a purse, and a purse is a rag unless you have something in it.”
“There are two kinds of money : the one you make without expecting it, and the one you expect without making it. ~ Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu”
“What will the owners say, sir?” “Let the owners stand on Nantucket beach and outyell the Typhoons. What cares Ahab? Owners, owners? Thou art always prating to me, Starbuck, about those miserly owners, as if the owners were my conscience.”
“Greed corrupts the mind and a corrupted mind has no remorse, sympathy , love or respect for other humans. It only has love for money.”
“Unlike popular belief, the biggest challenge with investing is not where to invest. It is about starting to invest, and then continuing to invest through thick and thin, until your target is reached.”
“There is neither a shortcut, nor any secret to becoming rich. But there is a process to becoming rich - a process that demands discipline, commitment, consistency, perseverance & character of the highest order.”
“A fortune earned with merit lasts longer than a fortune earned by inheritance.”
“Money can buy a house, but not a home.”
“Who could justify trading a lifetime of stress and backbreaking labor for better blinds? Is a nicer-looking window treatment really worth so much of your life?”
“Our god is great, and money is his Prophet! We devastate nature in order to make sacrifice to him. We boast that we have conquered Matter and forget that it is Matter that has enslaved us.”
“After a certain point, more money is needed. Not to fill the pocket, but for the betterment of society.”
“What is it we buy with this money we desire? Is it something valuable? Is it something lasting? Oh, why do we desire it? Miserable is the rest achieved that costs so dearly.”