Quotation Collection

Very many people spend money in ways quite different from those that their natural tastes would enjoin, merely because the respect of their neighbors depends upon their possession of a good car and their ability to give good dinners. As a matter of fact, any man who can obviously afford a car but genuinely prefers travels or a good library will in the end be much more respected than if he behaved exactly like everyone else. Bertrand Russell

• money
• thrift

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. Ayn Rand

• rights

Once you buy the argument that some segment of the citizenry should lose their rights, just because they are envied or resented, you are putting your own rights in jeopardy - quite aside from undermining any moral basis for respecting anybody's rights. You are opening the floodgates to arbitrary power. And once you open the floodgates, you can't tell the water where to go. Thomas Sowell

• rights

If you are really effective at what you do, 95% of the things said about you will be negative. Scott Boras

• criticism

Those who have talent must hug it, embrace it, nurture it and share it lest it be taken away from you as fast as it was loaned to you. Frank Sinatra

• talent

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Charlie Daniels

• attitude

Learn to live a life of honest poverty, if you must, and turn to more important matters than transporting gold to your grave. Anonymous

• wealth
• contentment

Whether in chains or in laurels, Liberty knows nothing but victories. Wendell Phillips

• freedom
• liberty

It's better to do nothing with your money than something you don't understand. Suze Orman

• investing
• money

God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn. Clive Staples Lewis

• God