One definition of maturity is learning to delay pleasure.

There's not a party, a congressman, a senator, etc. elected that will fix your life. YOU have to fix YOUR life.

Study the habits of the people you want to be like and then imitate them. If they are succeeding, they must be doing something right.

This is not a game, ... Debt has become a part of who we are. It's become that spoiled child in the grocery store with their lip stuck out: 'I want it. I want it. I deserve it because I breathe air.' And, well, that's an uphill climb in our culture right now, to go against that and say, 'Hey, let's be grownups here. Let's be mature, learn to delay pleasure, save up and pay for things.'

After losing everything, I went on a quest to find out how money really works, how I could get control of it, and how I could have confidence in handling it.

Christmas is about giving. Be outrageously generous. Have fun, enjoy the process....then keep it up all year.

Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully.