Suze Orman Quotes

The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge.

Understand and accept the cycles of money. The setbacks you may have today or next year will not keep you from financial freedom. If you hold on to your goals and dreams, you will get there.

The big message I give to all of our clients, and anyone we lecture to, is you have to be smart with your money.

If you save your money right, you can have what you want.

If you want to do well in life financially, then you have to start with dollars and cents. Those are details. So every penny means something. People who are successful tend to take care of those little things very well. And then they also accumulate credit, resources and do whatever it is that you need in life - that's a preparation for success.

I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.

Anybody with a reasonable income can become financially independent in a lifetime.

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

Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.

Time is key to building your financial security.

I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us.

Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

Frugality, when all is spent, comes too late.

I do not think that you can spend yourself rich.

You've gotta have a healthy balance of keeping your eye on how much money is in your account and making sure that it can sustain a healthy, happy life.

When you get that signing bonus, don't start thinking about all the things you can do with $1 million.

I wouldn't advise anyone to blow their money on cars.

I wasn't really taught about the value of money. I just learnt it as I grew up, but I do remember my dad telling me that it was important to always have some savings, and that stuck with me. I've always believed that putting money aside is a good thing.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

I'm careful with money.

I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.

Couples that do save have stronger, more stable, less stressful unions. In other words, you don't want to be fighting about saving; you just want to be saving, period.

By the time I was 25 or 26, I would have earned a million, but if you looked in the bank account, it's not there because I've spent it. That's what it's there for. I don't want to be the richest bloke in the graveyard. Look at Elvis.

The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem.