Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn
Your passion should be reason number one for what you learn.
As long as you learn for yourself and educate yourself in order to learn stuff you really care about, you are doing it right.
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It’s easier to get into debt than it is to get out of debt.
Clifford Kidd
This sounds very mundane but is in fact a very important thing to be aware of!
Never get into debt as long as you have the choice!
Fighting yourself out of debt sucks as hell and it is a pain in the ass to pay off your debts, it is a pain to know that every month you work for someone else and not into your own bank account.
Believe me, I’ve been there, you do not want to be in debt!
Stay positive and keep your account balance positive!
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You reach a point where you don’t work for money.
Walt Disney
Money can only bring you so far before it won’t be fun anymore.
There will be a point where you start working for your own pleasure, where you do not see work as a duty or as a pain.
Work will be your hobby and you will love it.
But bear in mind: In order for this to happen you need to have a positive mindset about work. Allow your work to affect you in a positive way. As long as you go to your office or place of work with thoughts along the lines of ‘Meh, I hate this job’, you won’t achieve any of those effects.
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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
Henry David Thoreau
Some people are so poor, all they have got left is money.
While money is a nice thing you should see it as a resource, not as a source for happiness. Wealth is not mesured in currency but in feelings. Happiness is not correlated to your account balance, remember that.
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Don’t go into business to get rich. Do it to enrich people. It will come back to you.
Stew Leonard
People often ask me how much money I make with being an enterpreneur and think it is abot being rich or having more money than others.
But same as with any other work your motivation for daily creation should be to build up new value. Do not work in order to get payed. Do something awesome, create value by doing stuff you love. That’s when people want to pay you, trust me.
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It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.
Annie Gottlier
Working for money is not working out at all, it will tear you apart.
Working for your passion, doing what you love, that will work. And it will bring money in the long run, so don’t worry too much, get good at what you love!
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Be thankful for what you have, you’ll end up having more.
Oprah Winfrey
You are not rich if you have it all, you are rich if you are satisfied with what you have. This is especially true in our modern society in which it is normal for people to have big tvs and drive nice cars.
Appreciate what you’ve got and you would not need to chase so much stuff you don’t need.
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Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
F. D. Roosevelt
Well no, money does not make one happy. But it is an indicator. Why you ask?
Well people who have a lot of money often have earned a lot of money. And they did this by having discipline and doing hard creative work over a long period of time (in many cases at least).
This long time of hard and creative work is what makes people happy. Building up things, creating things, that is what makes humans happy.
So someone can be happy without having money and someone can be happy with having lots of money. It would be wrong to say that most people who are happy have lots of money. But I think it is safe to assume that most people who have lots of money (-> earned lots of money) are in fact happy, because they felt achievement and joy.
It is a saying that not the one who can buy everything is the happiest, but the one who needs the least. I agree. And the one who needs the least is the one who has created more than anyone else: A modest human being that has turned down ego and greed to a minumum.
Work on things you love and by that work on yourself, your charakter, your body: That will bring you happiness! If money is involved: All right. If there is not much money involved: Fine.
Don’t go out there in search for money. If you want to succeed merely in order to get rich, I do not want to work with you.
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Whatever you do, do it with a purpose and not for the money!
It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.
Tom Brokaw
Making money is not that important after all. It is fun and games, but it won’t make you happy.
When you die you don’t want to have a high bank roll, you want to be happy so design your life in a way that you could die happily anytime!
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