10 Enlightening Quotes About Money and the Economy, Brought to you by ARISE Life Skills & Training

Bailouts, foreclosures and job losses, oh my! Each day seems to bring more bad news about the economy. Reading the newspaper or watching the news is enough to make anyone anxious about the future and the state of their finances. As we go through this trying time, remember that the country has been through this before and emerged stronger.  Here are some quotes about money and the economy from some of history’s greatest minds. Read them over, think about them and try to breath. Everything will work itself out. It always does.

1. You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you. – Ruth Smeltzer
2. Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one. – Benjamin Franklin
3. So often we rob tomorrow’s memories by today’s economies. – John Mason Brown
4. Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. – Warren Buffett
5. Anyone who thinks there is safety in numbers hasn’t looked at the stock market pages.  – Irene Peter
6. Men make counterfeit money. In many cases, money makes counterfeit men.  – Sydney J. Harris
7. It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours. – Harry Truman
8. We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official; a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges. – Winston Churchill
9. Be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy only when others are fearful. – Warren Buffett
10. I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.  – Warren Buffett

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Five Quotes to Ponder, brought to you by ARISE Life Skills & Training

Life is a perpetual quest for knowledge. Here are 5 quotes from some of history’s smartest people to help you in your own personal journey. For more quotes like these and to learn how to use them to teach life skills lessons, visit the ARISE website: http://www.ariselife-skills.org to order ARISE books or sign up for a training course.

10 Valuable ARISE Posts You Might Have Missed.

As we approach the one year anniversary of the ARISE blog, we thought it was time to refresh our readers’ memories on some of our most popular posts. The most visited entries are the ones featuring quotes. Here are our top 10 blogs featuring wonderful, inspiring quotations. Enjoy!

1. 10 Quotes About Choices
2. 10 Quotes to Help You Stay Positive
3. Five Wise Quotes About Anger
4. 10 Enlightening Quotes about Money and the Economy
5. Five Quotes to Ponder
6. 10 Quotes for Success
7. 10 More Quotes for Success
8. 10 Quotes for Success, Part III
9. 10 Quotes for Success, Part IV
10. 10 Thoughtful Quotes About Worry, Stress and Anxiety

We love quotes because they make us think. We feature quotes prominently in our Life Skills material. For more information on the ARISE curricula, visit the ARISE website.

10 Quotes for Success, Part 4, brought to you by ARISE Life Skills & Training

Sometimes we all need a little inspiration when life gets rough. Throughout history, great thinkers have come up with fantastic nuggets of wisdom. The ARISE Get Smart! Series is a virtual Fort Knox of these golden pieces of advice. Enjoy!

ARISE Life Quotes for Success, Part 4

1. “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” – Elbert Hubbard
2. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle
3. “Nothing on Earth can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goals; nothing on Earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” – Thomas Jefferson
4. “What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.” – Joseph Addison
5. “If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin

10 Quotes for Success, Part III, Brought to you by ARISE Life Skills, North Palm Beach, FL

The easiest way to learn a life skill is through another person’s example. We earn wisdom through experience. The following 10 ARISE life quotes were borrowed from the ARISE Foundation’s GET SMART! series.

Use these quotes to begin your own private collection. Taken once or more a day, we guarantee they will work for you. -Susan & Edmund Benson, ARISE Founders