"Power comes from who you are, not what you are."
"I can't tell you how many times my grandfather would say, 'Suze, they can take your house, they can take your job, they can take your money, they can take your mind, but you can't take your heart. So you have to grow up valuing your own heart, who you are.' My grandfather understood the difference between external and internal power.
"Money has no power of its own."
"You alone are the power source. You are the one who makes the choices to spend money, to save money, to borrow money."
"Self-worth builds net worth."
"I realized we spend more than when we feel less than. [...] If you have credit card debt and no savings, and you feel miserable, don't attribute your woes to not having enough money; instead see the lessons your money is trying to teach you."
"Do what's right, not what's easy."
"To know whether something is right or just easy I turn to my gatekeeper test questions: Is it kind? Is it necessary? Is it true? And I make sure I can answer yes to all three. Is it kind - to me? Is it necessary - to me? Is it true - to me?"
"Ignorance is not bliss where money is concerned."
"Gathering information is important, but at the end of the day you must depend on yourself to synthesize it and make your own informed decisions. Seeking out opinions is smart; blindly following those opinions without thinking through whether they make sense to you - and for you - will leave you drowning in a pool of powerfulness."
"How you respect your possessions says a lot about how you respect yourself."
"If you don't respect what money can buy, you don't respect money. If you don't respect your financial obligations - paying your bills on time, buying only what you actually have the money for, saving for your future - then you don't respect money."
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