Marshall Field Quotes

Those who can create wealth — and know that they can — are able to dictate their own terms.

If you have urgent current expenses to cover, then future priorities like college and retirement fall off your radar because they are simply less pressing. Scarcity of attention prevents us from seeing what's really important. The psychology of scarcity engrosses us in only our present needs.

Unless you have financial resources of your own, you can't be free.

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

For me, the biggest thing with money has always been independence - just the biggest.

So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.

Financial independence is paramount. My mom always says that when a woman is financially independent, she has the ability to live life on her own terms. I think that was the soundest advice that I ever got. No matter where you go in life or who you get married to, you have to be financially independent - whether you use it or not.

Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.

Michael Johnson doesn't pay my bills or sign my cheques. So I don't really care what he has to say.

At base, financial literacy is inextricably connected to control over one's future.

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.

People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.

He that is rich is wise.

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.

I don't go near the money and the money doesn't go near me.

That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.

I do think that people ought to have some control over their money, rather than the government, just mandating to them how they're going to invest their money.

I make money, and I don't need money.

The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over 'The Wall Street Journal' or the 'Financial Times' and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.

Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

Money is not a fund of knowledge.

When you're a 20-something-year-old athlete and you're getting a six-figure check every week, you're not thinking about next week. You're not thinking, 'I'm going to be broke,' or 'I'm going to need another job.' But I'll tell you, there are a lot of broke athletes out there - I know plenty - and I didn't want to end up as one.