Thomas J. Stanley Quotes

Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

The very first step to building wealth is to spend less than you make.

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

I believe in building your foundation - if your foundation is not rich, then you are far from rich.

The good thing about getting wealthy is we don't need to understand a lot of things!

The main reason people struggle financially is because they have spent years in school but learned nothing about money. The result is that people learn to work for money...but never learn to have money work for them.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two works, industry and frugality.

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

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!

Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.

Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.

There are lots of things about millionaires that make them pretty ordinary, but what's not ordinary is their ability to accumulate wealth, how hard they work, and what they do for a living.

I'm a little lavish I must admit. But I'm not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is.

The key to wealth is that it doesn't matter. Once you've had it, you don't think anything of it; you can wear cheap watches.

He that is rich is wise.

If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.