You have to teach children about money intentionally -- create teachable moments.

Be intense, passionate, and fired up, but about things that matter, things that change your life and your legacy.

My children were taught at an early age how money works and that it comes from hard work. They've been on a commission -- not an allowance -- since they were little. They learned that if they worked around the house, they got paid. If they didn't work, they didn't get paid.

You have the clean canvas of a whole week before you. Paint well.

A vacation home is a wonderful 'extra' as you start building wealth. Remember, though, it's still basically a very large, very expensive toy.

Adults devise a plan and follow it, children do what feels good.

Earning a lot of money is not the key to prosperity. How you handle it is.

Save 3-6 months of expenses in a Rainy Day fund. Know why? Cause it is going to rain, and you aren't the exception.

Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.

As parents, we teach our kids about things we feel competent in. That's why so many parents don't teach their kids about money.

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The creature comforts we tend to rationalize as business expenses I can write off.

You will either tell your money what to do or the lack of it will always manage you.

In the neighborhood where I grew up, it was a rough neighborhood -- well, not rough, but it certainly wasn't upper class or anything. But I remember hearing things like, 'The little man just can't get ahead.' And if you start to believe that, then you know what? You don't get ahead.

You don't need credit.

A big part of being strong financially is that you know where you are weak and take action to make sure you don't fall prey to the weakness. And we ALL are weak.

Broke people giving financial advice is like a shop teacher with missing fingers.

We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.

Don't medicate dysfunction with spending. No amount of stuff will get rid of guilt.

Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on.