Quotes About Empowerment

The best way to help the poor is not to become one of them

The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.

I can only hope that one day soon we'll understand our true economic buying power by investing in our own communities and putting our money into businesses that keep our dollars in our community.

I'll invest my money in people.

Financial education needs to become a part of our national curriculum and scoring systems so that it's not just the rich kids that learn about money.. it's all of us.

Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.

There's not a lot you can do about the national economy but there is a lot you can do about your personal economy.

I believe that close association with one who refuses to compromise with circumstances he does not like, is an asset that can never be measured in terms of money.

Infinite money is available to a mind that is ready, willing, able, qualified and gives itself permission to earn and accept it.

It comes down to this: either you control money, or it controls you. To control money, you must manage it.

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.

Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.

If we invest in jobs for our kids and do our best to keep them in school, we will end up saving a whole lot of lives and whole lot of money.

Money to me is just the biggest blessing in the world that allows me freedom.

Well, it's the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.

When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.

If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more people out of poverty.

Who needs a handbag? I put my money in my bra.

It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.

Donate time, food, or money to organizations that fight the good fight. We can act individually for the collective good. We can all do something.

You must trust yourself more than you trust anyone else with your money.

I would have to say the best was when my mom formed a company for me. I write out all of the checks for my performance business. I get to see the money I make and how much it takes to do what I do.

You spend money on Internet connection for your employees. Why not spend money on the energy that fuels their brains?

It really is understanding how to use money, and not let money use you.