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The Truth Will Always Lead You To A Better Place And A Bigger Place. And Every Single Setback, Every Single One, Has Led Me - Not In My Time, But In The Time That It Was Meant To Happen - To A Place That I Never In A Million Years Could Have Imagined That I Could Go Or Become.

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The Truth Will Always Lead You To A Better Place And A Bigger Place. And Every Single Setback, Every Single One, Has Led Me - Not In My Time, But In The Time That It Was Meant To Happen - To A Place That I Never In A Million Years Could Have Imagined That I Could Go Or Become.

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You Will Never Be Powerful In Life Until You Are Powerful Over Your Own Money. How You Think About It, How You Feel About It And How You Invest It.

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Life Insurance Policy

Never Cosign A Loan. Once You Have Cosigned, You Cannot Get Out Of It - Even On Your Deathbed.

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We Are All Powerless As Children, And Money Looms So Powerfully... We Don't Grow Up To Claim Our Financial Power Until We Look Money Directly In The Eye, Face Our Fears, And Claim That Power Back.

You Must Remember The Value That You Add To Others And Not Just What Others Have Added To You. That's How We Build Self-worth, Which, In My Opinion, Is Just As Important As Net Worth.

I Think They've Been Baby Bummers.

... True Financial Freedom Doesn't Depend On How Much Money You Have. Financial Freedom Is When You Have Power Over Your Fears And Anxieties Instead Of The Other Way Around.

Make This The Year You Tackle That Credit Card Debt Once And For All.

It's Only When We Give To Ourselves As Passionately As We Give Of Ourselves That We Create The Life We Want And Deserve.

Power Comes From Who You Are, Not What You Have, And The Transformation Starts With How You Allow Others To Treat You.

A Cash Advance On A Credit Card Is One Of The Worst Types Of Borrowing Because The Interest Rate Is Typically 21 Percent Or More.

I Simply Want You To Give To Yourself As Much As You Give Of Yourself. By Taking Care Of Yourself Financially, You Will Truly Be Able To Take Care Of Those You Love.

As Our Net Worth Falls, So Does Our Self-worth. Ironically, It's When We Don't Have It That We Most Feel We Have To Flaunt It.

Cleanliness Is A State Of Purity, Clarity, And Precision

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What Happens To Your Money Directly Affects The Quality Of Your Life -- Not Your Stockbroker's Life Or Your Banker's Life, But Your Life.

Men And Women Both Have An Equal Capacity To Make Money, But They Want Money For Different Reasons. Men Want Money For Power And Women Want It For Comfort, And Usually Not Their Own Comfort, But The Comfort Of Others In Their Lives.

Never, Ever Invest Money That You Will Need Prior To Three To Five Years - Minimum.

Everybody In America Started To Define Themselves By All These Things They Had Around Them. And All Of A Sudden It Came Tumbling Down. So The Old American Dream Has Died, And That Is A Good Thing.

If You Have A 50 Percent Match And You Get In Trouble Financially, You Can Either Withdraw Money As A Loan, Or Withdraw The 50 Percent Match. If You Take It Out, You Have To Pay Taxes On It, But You Still Come Out Ahead.

If You're Going Down The Street And You're Going The Wrong Way, Remember - God Permits U-turns.

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