Suze Orman Quotes

There is always going to be someone more successful, richer, better looking, or with a nicer car.

In L.A., it's easy to get caught up in what you look like or how much money you have, and those aren't values I want my kids to adopt.

I wanted to have money; I wanted to be special; I wanted people to like me; I wanted to be famous.

Wealth has never been a sufficient source of honour in itself. It must be advertised, and the normal medium is obtrusively expensive.

When you make a lot of money, it just means you made a lot of money. It doesn't make you a better person.

I've seen a lot of people in my life base their self-worth on what job they book or don't book, what car they drive, or whether they can afford a house deposit or not.

Never get into the petty habit of measuring yourself worth against other people's net worth.

Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.

I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point.

It's easy to love yourself when you feel good enough, when you feel special enough, when you're loved enough, when you have enough money, and you're appreciated.

I'm someone who'd never base how happy I am on how much money I have, or how good a restaurant is because of how posh it is.

If nothing else, I have money.

The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

With money, who needs friends?

More people smile at me now I'm richer.

I like fashion. I like being in shape. I like to look nice and I like to make money, but I don't think that's the most, No. 1, important thing.

A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.

I never wanted to be on any billionaires list. I never define myself by net worth. I always try to define myself by my values.

Without money honor is merely a disease.

The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

We think of ourselves as our titles or our jobs or our position in a family. We depend on being praised by others. But something happens when that praise is undermined.

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.