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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
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Screenwriter
Television Presenter
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Chicago
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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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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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The things that matter most in this world are those that carry no price tag, for they can neither be bought nor sold at any price.
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In order to live a rich life, everything about who you are must be one, in alignment, and in pure harmony.
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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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Time and love are the most valuable possessions you can share.
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Once your kids are grown and you know that you're completely healthy, consider canceling your life insurance policy.
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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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What's keeping you from being rich? In most cases it's simply a lack of belief. In order to become rich, you must believe you can do it, and you must take the actions necessary to achieve your goal.
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If you're saving for the long run, it's actually a good thing when the market is down because the more shares you have, the more you can potentially make when markets rise. And over time - decades, not months - the markets rise more than they fall.
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Try handling problems in the office as dispassionately as you can and I guarantee you will have a better time of it not least because when you bring emotion into the conversation, you furnish your colleagues with an easy out for dismissing you. If you are able to strip out the emotion, however, people have to deal with you based on the facts.
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The mind gives us thousands of ways to say no, but there's only one way to say yes, and that's from the heart.
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The world needs another vehicle to get people to pay in cash.
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Make it a priority to have at least eight months of living costs set aside in a federally insured bank or credit union account.
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Money is the currency of life because it is the external measurement system that all of us have as to how we judge where we are in our own lives.
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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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Each cent you apply toward diminishing your debt replenishes you.
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A great teacher once taught me that you've got to have faith that everything happens for the best. I have had many setbacks in my career and every setback has led me that much further into my truth.
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... true financial freedom doesn't depend on how much money you have. Financial freedom is when you have power over your fears and anxieties instead of the other way around.
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I've learned from her [ Oprah Winfrey] really how to stand in one's truth, how if you just simply are who you are, you know, you're heavy, you're thin, you're happy, you're sad - if you just speak your truth as it comes into your mind, then that's what people relate to.
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