Michael A. Stackpole Quotes

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.

I don't know if the money I've earned is going to need to last me for the next few weeks or the rest of my life.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

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

I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?

I've always been terrified about not having money. I've been a big saver and a big earner. When I've been out of work, I've always found another job. I never wanted to get into debt, because money was very tight when I was growing up. I never felt deprived, but I couldn't have the things I wanted.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

I look forward to the end of all this money-making part of the career, to be truthful.

When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Ty Tryon made a lot of money after turning pro, but he might not have been ready. I don't want to make a lot of money for a couple of months and then not be ready.

Money is something that keeps you alive and healthy and just keeps you focused. It's the drive. It's the passion.

I don't think spending money is a guarantee for anything.

Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

I never set money as a goal. It was a result.

I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'

Money is kind of just like air - if you don't have air, you can't breathe. If you don't have money, I don't think you'll want to breathe - you won't want to live.

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

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don't need money.

I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.

I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man.

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

I do not give money for just mere hopes.

I wasn't raised with money, so I had to get used to having it. I think I've adjusted to it pretty well.