Top 100 Orman Quotes
#1. Unlike most experts in her field, Erika Andersen has an approach to being strategic that's sensible and accessible. With her, you feel capable of creating the business, career and life you want. She's to strategy what Suze Orman is to personal finance!
Nancy Tellem
#2. Orman nodded wearily 'As I said, when a person is unpopular, it's so easy to think badly of him
John Flanagan
#3. Learn to recognize true wealth. Money itself will not make you financially free. That comes as a result of only that powerful state of mind which tells us that we are worth far more than our money.
Suze Orman
#4. Structured settlements are a common way for people who have been injured to receive an insurance payout. The periodic payments provide ongoing income and reduce the risk of blowing a lump sum through poor financial choices.
Suze Orman
#5. Your goal should be to pay off your credit card bills in full at the end of each month and set aside money toward your emergency savings.
Suze Orman
#6. Stop saying yes out of fear about what others will think about you and say NO out of love for yourself!
Suze Orman
#7. Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.
Suze Orman
#8. The world does not need another credit card.
Suze Orman
#10. Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.
Suze Orman
#11. In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential. It's no different in the financial realm
Suze Orman
#12. Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#13. Money you know you need or want to spend in the next few years is savings. Money you keep handy for an emergency belongs in savings. Money you hope to use soon for a down payment on a house belongs in savings. And all savings belong in a low-risk bank savings account or money market account.
Suze Orman
#14. I have a million dollars in the stock market, because if I lose a million dollars, I don't personally care.
Suze Orman
#15. 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.
Suze Orman
#16. Credit card issuers and HELOC lenders are like fair-weather friends: They cozy up to you in good times, but when the economy heads south, they abandon you faster than Usain Bolt runs the 100 meters.
Suze Orman
#17. Abundance is about being rich, with or without money.
Suze Orman
#18. Estate planning is an important and everlasting gift you can give your family. And setting up a smooth inheritance isn't as hard as you might think.
Suze Orman
#19. Rather than saying, 'My checking account is a wreck,' change it to 'I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.'
Suze Orman
#20. The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare.
Suze Orman
#21. Women need to turn their attention from saving their spouse, their mothers, their this, their that, their kids, to putting that financial oxygen mask on their face first. When they're solid, they can pick up the whole world.
Suze Orman
#22. Every portfolio benefits from bonds; they provide a cushion when the stock market hits a rough patch. But avoiding stocks completely could mean your investment won't grow any faster than the rate of inflation.
Suze Orman
#23. One journalist estimated my liquid net worth at $25 million. That's pretty close. My houses are worth another $7 million.
Suze Orman
#24. Financial advice needs to change according to what is happening in the economy.
Suze Orman
#25. America has a broken spirit, that the people that are saying, "Please help me, please let me keep my home, please let me keep my car, please recognize me as a vital human being," they are falling on deaf ears.
Suze Orman
#26. You can't build a foundation on lies.
Suze Orman
#27. What kind of person actually sits down and decides that no one should be allowed to end a sentence with a preposition? Not even decide what ideas you should or shouldn't talk about, but to actually make rules about what order to put your words in ... It's such an amazing kind of petty tyranny.
Jonathan Blum Kate Orman
#28. I get so frustrated when people tell me it's unrealistic to create an eight-month emergency savings fund, or have money saved for a home down payment, or pay off their $5,000 credit card balance.
Suze Orman
#30. You need face time, not computer time. When you're in a tough job market, it's the personal touch that gets you the job.
Suze Orman
#31. You must recognize, embrace, and be honest about what is real for you today and allow that understanding to inform the choices you make. Only then will you be able to build the future of your dreams.
Suze Orman
#32. I get mad when people give me presents. I don't want them, I don't need them.
Suze Orman
#33. Women fake orgasms and men fake finances.
Suze Orman
#34. Beneath the uniformity that unites us in communication there is a chaotic personal diversity of connections, and, for each of us, the connections continue to evolve. No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#35. 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?
Suze Orman
#37. There's nothing wrong with saying, "I want to have more," "I want to be more," "I did this for money."
Suze Orman
#38. If you're financially responsible, your children have a much better chance to grow up financially responsible.
Suze Orman
#39. If there is a case for mental events and mental states, it must be that the positing of them, like the positing of molecules, hassome indirect systematic efficacy in the development of theory.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#40. Your credit score affects the interest rates you're offered on credit cards and loans, can be used to vet your job application, and in some states may influence your insurance premiums.
Suze Orman
#42. Treating 'water' as a name of a single scattered object is not intended to enable us to dispense with general terms and plurality of reference. Scatter is in fact an inconsequential detail.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#43. For me the problem of induction is a problem about the world: a problem of how we, as we are now (by our present scientific lights), in a world we never made, should stand better than random, or coin-tossing chances changes of coming out right when we predict by inductions ...
Willard Van Orman Quine
#44. To define an expression is, paradoxically speaking, to explain how to get along without it. To define is to eliminate.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#45. You must remember the value that you add to others and not just what others have added to you. That's how we build self-worth, which, in my opinion, is just as important as net worth.
Suze Orman
#46. 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.
Suze Orman
#47. It is my hope that when a reader chooses to suspend their reality for mine, that it will be time well spent.
Sharon Van Orman
#48. Abundance is in crucial ways a state of mind.
Suze Orman
#49. No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February.
Suze Orman
#50. Prenups are so unromantic - a sign of distrust, not love. Time for a reality check, my friends. First, drawing up a prenuptial agreement together is a sign of incredible trust and financial openness - you're fooling yourself if you think you can achieve complete intimacy without it.
Suze Orman
#51. I want to be clear here: It does not matter what you say in your will or trust; the beneficiary document attached to your IRA accounts and your life insurance policy overrides what you say elsewhere. If you want to change the beneficiary, you must change the beneficiary document.
Suze Orman
#52. If the relationship between you and your money is harmonious, regardless of how much you have, your financial transactions will be harmonious as well.
Suze Orman
#53. Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#54. If you have debt I'm willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.
Suze Orman
#55. How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#56. It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#57. Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in
principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic
definition of truth is doomed to failure equally.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#58. Courage is not always about action. It takes courage to do nothing rather than do something that you do not believe in or understand.
Suze Orman
#59. I don't care how far we've come with "women's liberation," with all these things. In a man's mind, he still needs to be the support of his family. He needs to hold up the world.
Suze Orman
#60. Each cent you apply toward diminishing your debt replenishes you.
Suze Orman
#61. 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.
Suze Orman
#62. Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#63. Everybody in America started to define themselves by all these things they had around them. And all of a sudden it came tumbling down. So the old American dream has died, and that is a good thing.
Suze Orman
#64. True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.
Suze Orman
#65. I've learned an encyclopedia version of life from Oprah Winfrey.
Suze Orman
#66. One has to ask what is the goal of life? What is the goal of life? My interpretation of it for myself, a very wise teacher once taught me this, is to meet the needs of the people, places and the times around you and offering those services to God.
Suze Orman
#67. If your company matches your 401(k) contribution, then no matter what, contribute to your 401(k) first. You put in a dollar, they put in 50 cents. It's an automatic 50 percent return on your money. You can't pass that up. I'd rather have the 50 percent than pay 32 percent interest on a credit card.
Suze Orman
#68. Put your financial life on autopilot as a form of 'forced' saving.
Suze Orman
#69. When you understand that your self-worth is not determined by your net-worth, then you'll have financial freedom
Suze Orman
#70. 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.
Suze Orman
#71. The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#72. Make it a priority to have at least eight months of living costs set aside in a federally insured bank or credit union account.
Suze Orman
#73. The world needs another vehicle to get people to pay in cash.
Suze Orman
#74. If you wait to see how much money you have left at the end of the month to put toward savings, the answer may be zero. So, set up an automated monthly transfer from your checking to savings account. Once you lock into that commitment, you'll be forced to scale back spending to make ends meet.
Suze Orman
#75. Yes, your kids should go to school. No, you shouldn't bankroll their degree whatever the cost. You've spent your life creating a sound financial plan; don't upend it by suspending your retirement savings or taking out a home equity line of credit to pay for a pricey college.
Suze Orman
#76. I get more inspired by seeing everyday people succeed against the odds than anything else in life.
Suze Orman
#77. Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#78. Money doesn't bring courage, I learned. It's the other way around. Once I took that lesson to heart, I began to rebuild my life.
Suze Orman
#79. I want to see a new system. I believe that the credit scoring system is broken. That's my belief.
Suze Orman
#80. The American dream is dead for the majority of America.
Suze Orman
#81. No well-planned retirement should be without long term care insurance. It is the very cornerstone of retirement security.
Suze Orman
#82. The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#83. Here's what's interesting about women. When it comes to their babies, when it comes to their children, they become these financial warriors like I have never seen before. They will not turn their back on the battlefield.
Suze Orman
#84. Once you stop looking for a job, you are no longer considered part of the unemployment number.
Suze Orman
#85. Never cosign a loan. Once you have cosigned, you cannot get out of it - even on your deathbed.
Suze Orman
#86. We tend to focus on assets and forget about debts. Financial security requires facing up to the big picture: assets minus debts.
Suze Orman
#87. 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
#88. In order to live a rich life, everything about who you are must
be one, in alignment, and in pure harmony.
Suze Orman
#89. I believe in God big time and I'm proud to say I believe in God.
Suze Orman
#90. 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.
Suze Orman
#91. Sometimes your mind lets you do things with your money that make no sense.
Suze Orman
#92. Make this the year you tackle that credit card debt once and for all.
Suze Orman
#93. I'm in a relationship with life. My life is just out there. I'm on the road every day. I love my life.
Suze Orman
#94. Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#95. I'm a big advocate of a work-for-pay setup rather than an allowance that isn't attached to chores - it's a great way to impart the value of money to your children.
Suze Orman
#96. Show respect for your money ... Then your money will think and care about you in return.
Suze Orman
#97. To enjoy a long, comfortable retirement, save more today.
Suze Orman
#98. When you've been battered down and battered down and battered down, your spirit gets broken.
Suze Orman
#99. If you have a 50 percent match and you get in trouble financially, you can either withdraw money as a loan, or withdraw the 50 percent match. If you take it out, you have to pay taxes on it, but you still come out ahead.
Suze Orman
#100. 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.
Suze Orman
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