Edward Young Quotes

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

A good paymaster is lord of another man's purse.

I want people that made a fortune.

The more debt we owe, the wealthier we are.

Your financial success is directly related to the size of the problem you solve for other people (solve BIG problems and you'll make BIG money).

Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich.

The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.

Once again, the 90/10 rule of money applies - 10% of the borrowers in the world use debt to get richer - 90% use debt to get poorer.

One good idea is all you need to start a fortune.

You don't build wealth with credit card rewards and airline miles. You can't beat the credit card companies at their own game.

If you sell to the rich, you will become poor. If you sell to the poor, you can become rich. It is easier to get one peso from a million poor people than to get one million from one rich person.

Money makes money. And the money that makes money makes more money.

Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing.

I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.

A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.

If you've got the money, you need people to make money with your money. And if you have the talent, you can always merchandise your talent to someone who's got the money and make money. There's two pieces to it: talent and money.

You have to do more than you get paid for because that’s where the fortune is.

When you have a pile of bills that you have no idea how you are going to pay, you cannot focus on the bills, because you will continue to attract more bills. You have to find a way that works for you to focus on prosperity, despite the bills around you.

Those who seize the day become seriously rich.

Economic progress and justice do not consist in superbly equalized destitution, but in the constant creation of more and more goods and services, of more and more wealth and income to be shared.

I have always believed that most large fortunes are made by men...who tumbled into a lucky opportunity. Hard work and attention to business are necessary, but they rarely result in achieving a large fortune. Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich, he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

How do you deserve a fortune? Render fortunes of service.

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money.

I'm not worried they're all about the investments we make. I mean, listen, this country - we've got $46,000 or $47,000 of GDP per capita. Now, we've done pretty darn well. We'll do better in the future.