T. Harv Eker Quotes

Let's face it, we're not about to earn our way to wealth. That's a mistake millions of Americans make. We think that if we work harder, smarter, longer, we'll achieve our financial dreams, but our paycheck alone-no matter how big-isn't the answer.

If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.

I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn.

Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.

Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself.

When you are young and impecunious, society conditions you to exchange time for money, and this is quite as it should be. Very few people are hurt by having to work for a living. But as you become more affluent, it somehow is very, very difficult to reverse that process and begin trading money for time.

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

When you go to bed tonight, ask yourself 'What percentage of my day did I spend creating residual income?' If the answer is ZERO, you're in trouble.

Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else.

If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

$1,000,000 in the bank isn't the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

To some extent I could identify with that because I kind of just made my money and got out.

I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?

Go where the money is... and go there often.

I make money, and I don't need money.

Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes, your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write.

To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

It's funny because unlike back in the seventies when I made hardly any money, today I could just live off the past if I wanted to. I have no interest in that.

I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.

I'm not really interested in making money.

I'm a wealth creator. I'm not interested in saving in the least. While I do spend a lot, I don't spend money like other billionaires. I'm probably quite unusual, albeit I do have some of the significant trappings. But I always try to make my assets work for a living.