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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?

Suze Orman

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Suze Orman
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: June 5
Author
Businessperson
Financial Adviser
Motivational Speaker
Restaurateur
Screenwriter
Television Presenter
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Chicago
Illinois
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You can have all the money in the world. You can be a multi-billionaire, but if you do not have your health it means nothing. Your health is the No. 1 important thing in your life.
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When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.
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Whenever you're confronted with a tough work situation, stop for a second and try to honestly answer this question: Am I approaching this emotionally or am I approaching this professionally?
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Live below your means but within your needs.
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You have to see every potential roadblock as an opportunity and a benefit.
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I want to see a new system. I believe that the credit scoring system is broken. That's my belief.
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I am a big believer that orderliness begets wealth.
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Your goal should be to pay off your credit card bills in full at the end of each month and set aside money toward your emergency savings.
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If you're going to live in the house make it your goal to just pay off your mortgage.
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It's only when we give to ourselves as passionately as we give of ourselves that we create the life we want and deserve.
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Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites.
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I have a million dollars in the stock market, because if I lose a million dollars, I don't personally care.
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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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When you've been battered down and battered down and battered down, your spirit gets broken.
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What happens to your money directly affects the quality of your life -- not your stockbroker's life or your banker's life, but YOUR life.
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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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Just because one of you earns the paycheck doesn't mean that person should lord over how the money is handled.
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I answered her spiritually. And that is where Oprah [Winfrey]comes from. She comes from a place of the truth within her. And I think that's why we clicked. And I think that's why we still continue to click.
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I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.
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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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