Suze Orman Quotes

Money is one form of power. But what is more powerful is financial education. Money comes and goes, but if you have the education about how money works, you gain power over it and can begin building wealth. The reason positive thinking alone does not work is because most people went to school and never learned how money works, so they spend their lives working for money.

Money should be mastered, not served.

I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.

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

For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.

I consider each of my dollars to be investment "soldiers," and their mission is "freedom."

Money can't be cared about - it's got to be a tool that you use, because if you don't use it, it will use you.

You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.

Be your money's master, not its slave.

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.

After losing everything, I went on a quest to find out how money really works, how I could get control of it, and how I could have confidence in handling it.

We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.

At the point the money hits your hands, you have the power to determine your financial future.

You either master money, or, on some level, money masters you.

It really is understanding how to use money, and not let money use you.

When you give up the hope that some advisor, some system, some source of inside tips is going to give you a shortcut to wealth, you'll finally begin to gain control over your financial future.

I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.

Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.

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.

I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.

Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.

I have a personal prosperity plan. I know where my money goes, and how I can spend it more fruitfully. A prosperity plan is something fluid that may alter month to month.

If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it.

It's time to start thinking differently about money and debt and start the healing process - and the process toward wealth and freedom. 'Freedom from Bad Debt' can get you started.

The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.