Great Throughts Treasury

"Generally a person who invests for capital gains is investing on an opinion. A cash flow investor invests for facts. If possible a smart investor will invest using both opinion and facts, and invest for both cashflow and capital gains."

"From 1945 to 1974, the Western world - including America - was more socialistic than capitalistic, more pro-labor than pro-business."

"Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves."

"Games are a reflection of behavior."

"Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing."

"Getting a good education and making good grades no longer ensures success. People are working harder and harder, only to pay more taxes and end up in debt."

"Genius = GENI ? IN ? US."

"Getting rich begins with the right mindset, the right words and the right plan."

"Getting rich has little to do with money or formal education. Getting rich has everything to do with desire, drive, determination, study, friends, advisors, and how bad you want to be rich. It?s easy to be a rich expert in your own backyard."

"Get off your butt! You have to get smart, you have to look for teachers. I mean, that's pretty obvious -you want to be a mechanic, you go hang out with mechanics. You want to be a school teacher, hang out with school teachers. It's really simple. And it takes discipline, determination, drive, correction. You can't quit."

"Getting rich is not about being smarter ? but being BOLDER."

"Getting back to the difference between a saver and an investor: there is one word that separates them and that word is leverage. One definition of leverage is the ability to do more with less."

"Getting rich is about fun. It's a game, and you have to treat it that way."

"Give more to receive more."

"Give your children power, before you give them money."

"Give, which will have flooding including you opened."

"Giving a poor person money keeps them poor."

"Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts."

"Gold is hoarded. It's estimated that 95 percent of all gold ever mined is still around."

"Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind. Most people never get wealthy simply because they are not trained financially to recognize opportunities right in front of them."

"He knew if children studied what they were interested in, they would find their geniuses and succeed."

"Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community's well-being. If you're dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you."

"He said it was better to work years at creating an asset rather than to spend your life working hard for money to create someone else?s asset."

"He loved having the time to watch his children grow up and to work on projects that interested him, whether or not they made money."

"He said, 'Raise your price. Make it ridiculous. 'That would make people perceive it as a value."

"Henry Ford built his auto plant in Detroit because he could buy large tracts of rocky, unfertile, non-agricultural land for a great price."

"History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis."

"Hoping drains your energy. Action creates energy."

"How many millions of people are out there in the real world struggling financially?"

"How does it feel to have to ask for a job, or when you receive your paycheck at the end of the month? It seems like nothing, you?re disappointed. Especially after all the taxes."

"How can I serve more people? Ironically, I have made more money focusing on serving more people rather than focusing on how to make more money."

"Humans need to give."

"How many investments can you afford if you lose money each month?"

"I am concerned that too many people are focused too much on money and not on their greatest wealth, which is their education. If people are prepared to be flexible, keep an open mind and learn, they will grow richer and richer through the changes. If they think money will solve the problems, I am afraid those people will have a rough ride. Intelligence solves problems and produces money. Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone."

"I acknowledge that I sought and the people behind because they have millions, I was not trying at that behind their money, but their experience."

"I admitted I sought behind people because they have millions, and I was not trying in that behind their money, but their experience."

"I am pro-education. I'm just anti the system."

"I am the most difficult thing in the composition of the revolution is the Secretariat with the breath, and the desire to be free to follow the herd."

"I am extremely concerned by the lack of financial education our children receive in school. They never had a course on money or how to invest it, or how compounding works, the perils of consumer debt."

"I am very concerned about the millions of baby boomers who are counting on the stock market to deliver them a safe, sound, long retirement. I am afraid the baby boomers who are counting on the stock market are in trouble."

"I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken."

"I believe that every one of us has a gift. And I believe that mine is the ability to take the complex and make it simple."

"I can't afford it' shut down your brain. it didn't have to think anymore. besides, it also brings up sadness. A helplessness that leads to despondency and often depression. 'How can I afford it?' opened up the brain. Forced it to think and search for answers. It also opens up possibilities, excitement and dreams and created a stronger mind and dynamic spirit."

"I did have two Dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist."

"I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero."

"I began playing Monopoly for real when I was 26 years old. Today, my wife and I have approximately 1,400 little green houses - each paying us monthly. You do not have to be a rocket scientist or have a Harvard degree to play Monopoly for real."

"I continue my financial education via real-life experience and by having great mentors as well as great advisors. I love learning about money, business, finance and wealth. I will probably be a student until the day I die. I do not think I will ever feel I know enough, or that my cup is full or that I have all the answers. I can always learn more and love doing so."

"I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice."

"I do not work for money, but money is working for me?"

"I don?t know a successful person alive who didn?t also fail a lot at the beginning. The fear of failure is always lurking in the background of the mind, waiting to sabotage one?s success. If you pretend it?s not there, you can?t deal with it. Acknowledge it. Then move forward and do your best."