Rabbi Celso Celso Cukierkorn Quotes

#1. Luxury items are those things that are mass-produced by a third party and marketed to us to purchase so that we can express our individuality.

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#2. In my mind, the function of the bank is to save your money. The bank should not cost you money.

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#3. Maybe instead of buying myself another Barbie, I could donate that to the Kmart Wishing Tree ...

Hamish Blake

#4. There are just three things that you can do with Money:
save, give, or invest. Somehow in here in America, with all our creativity, we have invented a fourth use for money:
we can squander it

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#5. A: Money is energy. It provides our basic needs and it gives us choices and opportunities. When you have accumulated wealth, you can choose, do I want to work? Or when do I want to work? Do I want to help out this charity in town or the other charity that has a worldwide outreach?

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#6. Remember that while Christians say "Jesus saves," we Jews say "Moses invests.

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#7. God has no interest in violating our boundaries so that he can relate to us. He understands that this would cause injuries of trust. It is our responsibility to open up to him in need and repentance.

Henry Cloud

#8. I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling, but I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death - a state which I feared yet did not understand.

Mary Shelley

#9. I've pretty much gotten to the top of my sport.

Monica Brant

#10. Leverage is a term that makes us sound very sophisticated and wise when we use it. Let's analyze what it really means.

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#11. We use money that we don't have to show off to people that we don't even like.

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#12. The first money memory that many of us have as children is finding a coin on the street, in the park, or while walking to school. Then when we picked up the penny or nickel and showed it to our mother or father, and they immediately told us to go wash our hands saying, That is dirty!

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#13. All our lives we measure ourselves based on our height, but during a crisis we should measure ourselves in-depth.

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#14. We Jews created the concept of good luck. Luck in Hebrew is mazel, which is not actually a word. It is an acronym for three words:
1. makom = place
2. zman = time
3. lamud = work

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#15. Life would be so much easier if everyone read my book

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#16. Far too many people are signing up to become slaves to their credit card companies.

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#17. One of the best lessons we can learn is humility. You should define your material possessions; they shouldn't define you. #

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#18. There are so many impassioned winemakers. I think there are more impassioned winemakers than chefs.

Alain Ducasse

#19. Some of us aim at being good
I prefer to aim at being better

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#20. If you spent your life trying to be LIKE EVERYBODY, you will only succeed at BECOMING A NOBODY. (Rabbi Celso Cukierkorn Bestselling Author and Speaker)

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#21. You have to let go of what is holding you back.

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#22. I believe that the true definition of wealth is loving what you have rather than what you don't have.

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#23. Cheap people often are not very happy because they love money more than they love their families

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#24. Happiness is a state of activity.

Aristotle.

#25. The only thing operating on me was my God-given renewing body and his miraculous healing foods.

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#26. Today, we are the only people who are more likely to own a professional sports team than to play for one.

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#27. Have you ever wondered why your financial situation is not better even though you make more money now than you did when you were younger?

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#28. The world always pays you less than you are worth. Don't sell yourself short even further.

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#29. I have always wondered what relationship this present reality bears to an ultimate reality.

Marilynne Robinson

#30. The financial game is a team sport. God established a covenant with Noah after the flood, and later he established a covenant with Abraham. A covenant is an agreement between two parties. In order to prosper, you must establish what I call a "carevenant" with your family

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#31. You can also look at your body and think about how the blood flows and the fact that your body is in constant renewal. It is a miracle of creation happening within you every second of the day. This is something to be thankful for.

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#32. Smart people always choose comfort over luxury

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