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Rather than saying, 'My checking account is a wreck,' change it to 'I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.'

Suze Orman

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Suze Orman
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: June 5
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In January we start saving money, getting out of credit card debt, funding our retirement accounts, and we're doing wonderful. Then, every single year like clockwork, starting in November, all of you fall into this trap that says, 'I have to buy this gift... I can't show up at this party and not have something for everybody.
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Ignore the annual percentage rate when shopping for a mortgage.
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Absolutely pay off credit card debt. If you're not getting a match in your 401(k) and you've got credit card debt, you've got to get yourself out of credit card debt. When you get out of credit card debt, your credit score goes up and interest starts to go down.
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Like your home's closets, your financial clutter needs an overhaul every now and again, and the payoff will go far beyond the psychic satisfaction of neatening up.
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You will never be powerful in life until you are powerful over your own money. How you think about it, how you feel about it and how you invest it.
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When it comes to tackling your financial goals, whatever they might be, there's no time like the present.
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We each focus on what we're going to buy, but that's an incorrect focus. Focus instead on why you want to spend the money on this or that. What feeling in you does it satisfy?
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Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.
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One has to ask what is the goal of life? What is the goal of life? My interpretation of it for myself, a very wise teacher once taught me this, is to meet the needs of the people, places and the times around you and offering those services to God.
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It's easy to underestimate the real cost of home ownership.
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Time and love are the most valuable possessions you can share.
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The happiest moment of my life happens once a day.
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As our net worth falls, so does our self-worth. Ironically, it's when we don't have it that we most feel we have to flaunt it.
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Each cent you apply toward diminishing your debt replenishes you.
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Believing you are worthy of love means that you believe I deserve to be treated well - with respect and dignity. I deserve to be cherished and adored by someone. I am worthy of an intimate and fulfilling relationship. I won't settle for less than I deserve. I will do whatever it takes to create that for myself.
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I look around and there are needs that people have. Places have needs. These times have needs, and I have the education and the ability to communicate with it and help to solve those needs.
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To enjoy a long, comfortable retirement, save more today.
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After you marry, every asset either of you acquires is jointly held. That's why you both need to be in sync on your long-term financial goals, from paying off the mortgage to putting away for retirement. Ideally, you should talk about all this before you wed. If you don't, you can end up deeply frustrated and financially spent.
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Many of the good things would never have happened if the bad events hadn't happened first.
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Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.
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