Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
Interpretation
You have the power to manage your finances, or they will manage your life for you.
This quote emphasizes the importance of taking control of one's financial situation. It suggests that being proactive and disciplined about money management can lead to empowerment, while failing to do so may result in feeling trapped or manipulated by financial circumstances.
In practice
In a financial seminar, you could use this quote to emphasize the importance of budgeting.
Recognize that whether you are worthy or not is all a made-up 'story'...Nothing has meaning except for the meaning we give it...There's no one who comes around and stamps you 'worthy' or 'unworthy'. You do that. You make it up. You decide it...If you say you're worthy, you are. If you say you're not worthy, you're not. Either way you will live into your story.
If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.
A lack of money is never, ever, ever a problem. A lack of money is merely a symptom of what is going on underneath.
If your goal is to be comfortable, chances are you'll never get rich. But if your goal is to be rich, chances are you'll end up mighty comfortable.
Comfort kills! If your goal in life is to be comfortable, I guarantee two things. First, you will never be rich. Second, you will never be happy. Happiness doesn't come from living a lukewarm life, always wondering what could have been. Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up to our fullest potential.
Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich.
A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and unsocial chess player. Now matter how great his chess skills, he lacked the people skills to be a self-promoter and fund-raiser.
There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.
Vision w/o execution is just hallucination. You need the right combination of visionary + team that can execute
Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling.
What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your opportunities. And be a member of the team.
I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.
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