Focus Money Quotes

#1. I think sometimes you just lose your focus, and I think that's easy to do when you start getting more fame, more money, more power.

Joel Osteen

#2. Because fundraising is so distracting, a startup should either be in fundraising mode or not. And when you do decide to raise money, you should focus your whole attention on it so you can get it done quickly and get back to work.

Anonymous

#3. Each time you go to the grocery store with your kids, it is a potential learning opportunity. In order not to overemphasize materialism, focus on other things to do with money. In 'Beyond the Lemonade Stand,' I try to emphasize the importance of saving money, and of using it to help other people.

Bill Rancic

#4. I think we should focus more, rather than less, on mobilising the middle classes. They often have a bit of time and money to contribute to change.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

#5. Every minute you spend looking through clutter, wondering where you put this or that, being unable to focus because you're not organized costs you: time you could have spent with family or friends, time you could have been productive around the house, time you could have been making money.

Jean Chatzky

#6. If your sole focus is money, you may create a successful startup. But if it's impact, you can probably create history.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#7. All of your precious resources - time, energy, talent, passion, and money - should only go to the areas of your life or your business that are best, are fixable, and are indespensable. Otherwise, average sets in and [your life] does not become what it was designed to be.

Henry Cloud

#8. Self-preservation - this is your new focus.
The only obligation of today is to preserve the breath of tomorrow. Then, once footing is regained, you can begin to fulfill debt obligations.
Debt is hindsight.

John-Talmage Mathis

#9. DOOR MONEY" To focus on door money means one is paying so much attention to the amount of money they are making at the door they do not consider there is much more profit to be made inside a venue.

Carlos Wallace

#10. Fr. Bert White: I think when you focus on money and property ownership, you go the way of the material world, of the Big, of Up and More. It becomes your agenda and then faith can fly out of the window. There has to be faith and a trust in God's reality - a trust that things will work out.

Mother Teresa

#11. The goal of life isn't to make lots of money. Its to make a life that means EXCLUSIVE.

Mohit Manke

#12. Without financial literacy, divorce rates soar, families rupture, and women stay with abusive men for financial security. A lack of jobs contributes to riots and illegal activity. Name any situation and it goes back to money. We need to focus on poverty eradication.

John Hope Bryant

#13. All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.

Mark Wahlberg

#14. If you have more money than brains, you should focus on outbound marketing, If you have more brains than money, you should focus on inbound marketing.

Guy Kawasaki

#15. I've been trying to give as much attention and focus to my life as well as my career. It's hard because the career is money, but putting that before day-to-day needs isn't something that can last indefinitely. I'm excited to begin the next chapter of my life with an amazing woman.

Eric Lange

#16. Once I realized I wanted live in New York, I saved enough money that I wouldn't have to get a job right away. That was important to me, to focus on acting; I didn't want to come here and just fall into the mix.

Christopher Abbott

#17. Be optimistic and don't ever get discouraged or give up no matter how vain it may seem initially

Sunday Adelaja

#18. It is better to focus on the mission than to earn money.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. Getting rich takes focus, courage, knowledge, expertise, 100% of your effort, a never give-up attitude and a deep desire & commitment.

Abhishek Kumar

#20. If you want to find money, focus on people. If you want to lose people, focus on money.

Rob Liano

#21. Policy makers and business leaders take note: money matters. But often the best use of money as a motivator is to pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table - so that people can focus on the work rather than on the cash.

Daniel H. Pink

#22. My top priority will be to secure maximum value for money in aid through greater transparency, rigorous independent evaluation and an unremitting focus on results.

Andrew Mitchell

#23. The more money I make...the more I focus on my marriage...the more I love...the more I forgive...the more I mind my business...the less fucks I give.

J'son M. Lee

#24. Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.

Rocco DiSpirito

#25. We as artists are actively encouraged - by other authors, your agent, publisher, and society - not to think about money, strategy, how to manage your career, how to create a brand, because we're supposed to focus on the art.

Cassandra Clare

#26. When you begin to pursue your promised land, you get a lot of prohibitions and temptations

Sunday Adelaja

#27. If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months' worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union), you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards.

Suze Orman

#28. Time, energy and money. These should never be compromised.

Dee Dee Artner

#29. What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.

Oprah Winfrey

#30. I got paid a lot of money at one point so the focus became, for a lot of people, about that, but for me, it's always been the same goal: To stop the world for people.

Jim Carrey

#31. God does not need our money. He owns everything, including "our" money. What He wants [us] to discover is where our central focus of worship lies. Is that focus on God or our money?

Billy Graham

#32. Money is like a mischievous cat; if you chase it around the neighborhood, it eludes you. It hides up a tree, behind the rose bush, or in the garden. However, if you ignore it and focus on what attracts the cat, it comes to you and sits in your lap.

M.J. DeMarco

#33. In the end, the money and success that truly last come not to those who focus on such things as goals, but rather to those who focus on mastery and fulfilling their Life's Task.

Robert Greene

#34. This was not just money wasted but the construction of a false confidence based on an erroneous focus.

Anonymous

#35. The right decisions come from the right focus. You'll succeed if your focus is on the mission, not the money.

Robert Kiyosaki

#36. Money will never buy happiness, but managing your money well can provide the peace of mind that will allow you to focus your family on what matters most.

Devin D. Thorpe

#37. Instead of focusing on the amount of money lacking in your budget, focus on what you DO have: a willing spirit, an imagination filled with bright ideas, people who care about you and can perhaps help you in some way. These are the things that will enable you to do almost anything.

Phil Keoghan

#38. The Enlightened one (Gnani Purush) never wastes his time in counting money; focus of the awareness of the self (upayog) is wasted in doing this. One's focused awareness (upayog) is where he has 'interest'!

Dada Bhagwan

#39. Don't act based on religion; always have a purpose and focus

Sunday Adelaja

#40. Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

Donald Rumsfeld

#41. If you aren't constantly focused on your goals, you can easily waste all of the time, energy and money you invest in pursuing them.

Rob Liano

#42. Focus on money and we will make money. Focus on impact and we will make an impact.

Simon Sinek

#43. You've got to have a focus. You just fight for money, you get hurt. You focus on the title, you'll just naturally make money doing it.

George Foreman

#44. All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets - they're not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities.

Gary Locke

#45. Life must be lived in speed and focus

Sunday Adelaja

#46. 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

#47. Door money. It's a distraction. It impedes judgment. It blurs focus. Chasing the almighty dollar can become the root of all evil, the bane of one's existence.

Carlos Wallace

#48. The more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you'll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause. And make you money.

Robin Sharma

#49. Focus on people more than money. Without employees and customers, you're going nowhere. Make sure you never stop thinking about the customer's perspective. And make sure you have the right people at the helm of each area.

David Green

#50. The focus of the entrepreneur must always be on exchanging products or services for money, and anything that distracts from that like actually running a business, should be avoided where possible.

John Winterson Richards

#51. I am surprised at all the people in the high-tech industry focused on "making money" ... If that's all they want to do, they should have a $100 printing press in their basements and they will truly "make money." Instead, if we focus all that energy on innovation, we'll change the world for the best.

Philippe Kahn

#52. The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.

Adele

#53. I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.

Rufus Wainwright

#54. Hard labor jobs are a poor strategy for acquiring money, but they do garner respect. Self-made millionaires know getting rich has little to do with intelligence and everything to do with focus and persistence.

Steve Siebold

#55. Money is nothing more than a reflection of your creativity, your capacity to focus, and your ability to add value and receive back.

Anthony Robbins

#56. People comment today that we shouldn't focus on money so much but rather think of our fellow people who are less fortunate. So much baloney.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#57. The reason I've been able to be so financially successful is my focus has never, ever for one minute been money.

Oprah Winfrey

#58. What I know is, if you do work that you love, and work that fulfills you, the rest will come. I truly believe the reason I've been so financially successful is because my focus has never been on the money.

Oprah Winfrey

#59. In relationships with a directors, I want to be able to give and take, and I can't name what it is: respect, energy, investment in the task, focus, humor, intelligence, but I always feel responsible for taking the money.

Harrison Ford

#60. Politicians - in both political parties - spend too much money. And they forget to focus on what matters most: fixing the economic mess they created and putting people back to work.

Brad Wenstrup

#61. We focus on money, getting money and winning. We let the rest of them chase the women. We focus on winning cuz getting women is slight work. That's all the time with us.

Yo Gotti

#62. If you don't concentrate on counting the money, people soon realize that money is not the focus of your consciousness, so they give you everything other than money: kudos, acclaim, praise, etc., etc. And sooner or later you'll be in trouble.

Stuart Wilde

#63. It causes us to focus our attention on ourselves and draws us away from God

Sunday Adelaja

#64. Eliminate all distractions and focus on things that add value to your life

Sunday Adelaja

#65. If Portland can truly have a true comics show that doesn't become a media show but retains its focus on comics, I think it's going to serve the city well. If this becomes a big show, it's going to bring in a lot of money for the city.

Greg Rucka

#66. To attract money, you must focus on wealth. It is impossible to bring more money into your life when you are noticing you do not have enough, because that means you are thinking thoughts that you do not have enough.

Rhonda Byrne

#67. Do not focus on money, instead focus on a problem that needs to be solved for the world..money will follow you as a bi-product.

Manoj Arora

#68. I started LearnVest with a tiny savings account where I paid designers, technologists, and even bartered ... Because I started with paying for things myself with my own savings, it sharpened my focus of how to spend money.

Alexa Von Tobel

#69. In order not to fall into isolation we have to be established in the house of God and focus on serving Him

Sunday Adelaja

#70. The best investors are visionaries - they look beyond the present.
By the same token, vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#71. I get a lot of criticism for telling founders to focus first on making something great, instead of worrying about how to make money. And yet that is exactly what Google did. And Apple, for that matter. You'd think examples like that would be enough to convince people.

Paul Graham

#72. What's the job of the candidate in this world? The job of the candidate is to raise the money to hire the consultants to do the focus groups to figure out the 30-second answers to be memorized by the candidate. This is stunningly dangerous.

Newt Gingrich

#73. Stop obsessing about where you invest your money.
Focus instead, on where you invest your time.

Gyan Nagpal

#74. Change your focus from making money to serving more people. Serving people makes the money come in.

Robert Kiyosaki

#75. Don't let the things of the world distract you. Focus on your purpose

Sunday Adelaja

#76. Putting together a sustainable budget requires that we all work together, that we focus our scarce resources on key priorities, and that we strengthen our capacity to deliver the best product we can for the American people. And that takes money.

Roy Blunt

#77. I'm always thinking about losing money as opposed to making money. Don't focus on making money, focus on protecting what you have

Paul Tudor Jones

#78. Many people focus on the 4 percent rule, which essentially says that as long as you withdraw no more than 4 percent from your retirement accounts each year, the money should last you 30 years.

Jean Chatzky

#79. Do what you love and don't focus on money - life's too short.

Matt Mullenweg

#80. Blaming others for your low self-esteem, for your lack of money, for being overweight, or for feeling bad, is NOT going to make your life better. Take responsibility. Work on it. The choice is yours.

Maddy Malhotra

#81. In our case, we focus on quality, and we have a very simple model. If we show fewer ads that are more targeted, those ads are worth more. So we're in this strange situation where we show a smaller number of ads and we make more money because we show better ads. And that's the secret of Google.

Eric Schmidt