Financial Self-Reliance Quotes

Financial independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal resources.

I'm for economic independence.

Of wanting to pay my own way. I never asked my parents for money. I preferred to steal from my parents than ask them for money.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it

Nobody in Africa loves to be a beggar or a recipient of aid. Everywhere I go in Africa, people say, 'When are we going to stand up on our feet?'

Money wants no followers.

… the only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in their keeping their money in their own pockets, until they have assurances, perfectly satisfactory to themselves, that it will be used as they wish it to be used, for their benefit, and not for their injury

If you depend on your company to take care of your retirement, your future income will be divided by five. Take care of it yourself, and you can multiply your future income by five.

For most of America's history, people typically aspired to acquire 'a competency' rather than great riches. A competency meant the ability to comfortably sustain a household without depending on others. 'Competence' also meant being capable and reliable. The American Dream was that people who worked hard and capably could support their families.

I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet.

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

You can become much more independent, much more courageous with a bank account. And also, much more independent and self-reliant when you know you have money behind you.

No one can tell you what to do or push you around. It gives you a secure feeling. That's the best thing about money.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

I paid my own bills even when I was married and my husband could have easily paid them.

We are financially strong. We are self-sustaining. We don't have an umbilical cord that we are concerned about.

I pay for my own things, and that's how I've always been since I was 15.

You can easily rebuild wealth, but you cannot create liberty when it has gone.

There's nothing free. Stay independent and don't fall.

I think the only thing that really can be done - it would be painful, but less painful than the calamity we're heading toward - is to demand that people be responsible for their private obligations. No more bailouts, no more stimulus, no cash for clunkers.

To me, money is independence. It gives you freedom to do what you really want to do. It allows you to not be dependent on anyone or anything, and so you can be yourself and follow your passion.

I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money.

I might be the only one who's never taken a dime from my son.

I've had no money, absolutely, from my family. They paid for a good education - or schools that purported to be a good education - but, um, not a dime.