"Always, whenever anything comes up, the way I have continued to make more and more money, and what I believe is the number 1 requirement for leveling up your earnings is the willingness to go where you fear." -- Barbara Stanny
"I think if we want to be successful in business or relationships or anything, we’ve got to have our health under control. I don’t think it means having a six pack necessarily. I just think it means having the energy to be able to make hard decisions." -- Lewis Howes
“I’m always talking about life’s serendipitous path; you don’t know where it’s going to take you and you need to be ready. You need to be ready to seize opportunities and when something is percolating in front of you or beside you…”
“I’ve always been driven by work, but it was the money and then not wanting to be poor that took me to where I had to go. I managed to pull out of the tail spin and recognize that there’s a certain amount of money you need and then you should be able to start doing things that you like.”
"When you’re talking about money, you’re so quickly not talking about money. You quickly go into values, your background and why you feel this way. Through those conversations we learned a lot about each other that we wouldn’t have learned otherwise."
"The most important thing is what you don’t do and the opportunities that you turn down. You do a hundred things at 1% and you never get anywhere but if you could just do two things or one thing and really focus on it, you could do something great."
"I’ve noticed teaching what I teach at the Art of Charm, people are much more likely to tell you gross TMI details about their sex and personal lives than they are to tell you about anything to do with money."
"I am married with two toddlers, plus I am the primary earner in my household. Currently I have about $8000 in credit card debt and $8000 in student loan debt. Should I keep contributing towards the 529 plans, while trying to pay down the the debt?"
"It became crystal clear to me that I should start spending the rest of my career moving forward by helping people reunite what it is that lights them up, what it is that makes their life meaningful, and then use your assets and resources to start creating and moving towards that."
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