Stephen Covey Quotes

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

I'm for economic independence.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

I don't care about money. If I need money, I just make a token.

I'm proud that my clients are working to support themselves and those who depend on them.

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

There's a loss of autonomy that comes from not being able to own the wealth you've earned.

As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.

My mom always told me one of the reasons that she was really happy in her life was that, if Dad never worked again, she was confident that she could support the family.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.

As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed.

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.

Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.

I feel very lucky that I don't have to rely on a man to give me financial security. That's a big deal.

I make money, money doesn't make me.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

Free Americans deserve the chance to be fully self-supporting.

He chose to be rich by making his wants few, and supplying them himself.

You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.

I've always been pretty self-sufficient. I never had to borrow money from my mum, even in the early days.