Great Throughts Treasury

"If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people."

"If you can grasp the idea that money is not real, you will grow rich faster."

"If you do not know how to care for money, money will stay away from you."

"If you do not make the time to learn to be a better investor now, you will be saying the same things tomorrow as you are today. You?ll still be saying ?I didn?t have time to learn more and do more research.? Because of your impatience, your laziness, and your lame excuses about not having enough time, you will do the same thing you just did, which is to hand your money over to total strangers and have no ideas what they are doing with your money."

"If you do not like real estate, all you have to do is make hamburgers, build a business around that hamburger, and franchise it."

"If you don?t learn how money works, you WILL SPEND THE REST OF YOUR LIVES WORKING FOR IT!"

"If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement."

"If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win."

"If you must invest in paper, learn to be an options trader. Then you will know how to make money whether the markets are going up or down."

"If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you're rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout."

"If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don't buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver."

"If you play the blame game, it's hard to win at life."

"If you own a butcher shop, don?t hire vegetarians. To hire the right people, you have to let the wrong people go."

"If you realize that you?re the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don?t blame other people for your problems."

"If you really want to be rich, learn to build businesses... work hard to build a business, something you own, and something you can pass on from generation to generation to your kids? why would you work hard for something you will never own."

"If you read Conspiracy of the Rich, in 1903 John D. Rockefeller took over the financial education system by creating the General Education Board and since then the rich have controlled what is taught in schools."

"If you want to be a leader of people, then you need to be a master of words."

"If you teach yourself and others to be rich, you can become richer, regardless of how big or small your paycheck is."

"If you want to be rich, simply serve more people."

"If you want freedom you need to let go of security. Employees desire security and entrepreneurs seek freedom."

"If you want to be rich, you need to develop your vision. You must be standing on the edge of time gazing into the future."

"If you want to know why the towers of American capitalism are crumbling, I recommend reading 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' by G. Edward Griffin."

"If you want to avoid the risk and avoid loss, start early."

"If you want to be financially-free, you need to become a different person than you are today and let go of whatever has held you back in the past."

"If you want to be rich? Don?t allow yourself the luxury of excuses."

"If you want to be rich, simply spend your life buying assets. If you want to be poor or middle class, spend your life buying liabilities."

"If you want to be successful on the right side, when it comes to money, you have got to know the difference between facts and opinions. You must know numbers. You must know the facts."

"If you want to be successful, you need to make sure that you are going to fail hard... very hard."

"If you want to change your life, begin by changing your words, and the best news of all is that words are free."

"If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there."

"If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed."

"If you want to retire young and retire rich, it is very important that your money be like a bird dog, going out every day and bringing home more and more assets."

"If you?re the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you?re that kind of person, you?ll live all your life playing it safe, doing the right things, saving yourself for something that never happens. Then, you die a boring old man."

"If you work for money, you give the power to your employer. If your money works for you, you keep and control the power."

"If your mind is open to opposing ideas, your intelligence will go up."

"If you're going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best."

"If you're going to be successful in business, you have to find a place to develop character. The Marine Corps did that for me. The toughness, the discipline, the training - it carries on, and it made a man out of me."

"If you?re working for a good company and you?re happy there, and you?re being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there."

"If you?re still doing what mommy and Daddy said for you to do (go to school, get a job, and save money), you?re losing."

"If you're afraid of inflation, which you should be, I think silver is the number 1 investment today. Silver is a smoking deal! And silver, at about $15, $16, $20 an ounce, average Joe can do it, you know. You just cut out your Starbucks for a while and go buy some silver and you're in the game."

"If you're waiting for that situation improves then you move like a man who waits for all the signals to become green in front of him before he starts his term"

"If you've lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can't help you become rich."

"I'm always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money."

"I'm the hardest thing in the formation of a revolution is the Secretariat with oneself, and the desire to be free to follow the herd."

"If you've failed, it means you've tried. Absorb the lesson and try again."

"If you're waiting to get better conditions for the move you are like the man who waits All signals in front of him to become a green before he began his career long."

"If you're working for a good company and you're happy there, and you're being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there."

"In 1997, in Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I stated, 'Your home is not an asset.' Real estate agents sent me hate mail."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge ? it is unlimited! Everyone has multi-million ideas ? they just fear going for it."

"I'm a cash flow guy. If it doesn't make me money today, forget about it."