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“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”
― Celso Cukierkorn, Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!

“If you can live with less of what you have.
You can be more of who you are.”
― Celso Cukierkorn, Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!

“Poverty is a result of poor choices not of poor luck”
― Celso Cukierkorn, Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!

“Remember, buying something is not the problem. The problem comes when we believe, for that moment, that the object we’re buying is going to make us happy.”
― Celso Cukierkorn, Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!

“There is much more to wealth than simply a bank account with many zeros. A well-balanced, whole life is made up of wealth and success that comes from many facets; family, friends, work, faith, it is the complete person who works on each of these areas and creates the whole,”
― Celso Cukierkorn, Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!

“Cheap people often are not very happy because they love money more than they love their families”
― Celso Cukierkorn, Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!

“In bad countries the government takes care of everyone. In the best ones that's not necessary!‏”
― Celso Cukierkorn, Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!

“In the end of the day it matters much more how wise you spent your money than how much of it you have gathered.
Because the most important tool to measure your financial maturity is based uniquely on the first part of the question and the ability to keep money is more important than the ability to make money.
Rabbi Celso Cukierkorn”
― Celso Cukierkorn, Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!

“When you sacrifice everything for your family, and you’re committed to changing your lifestyle to secure a better future, it is not an act of greed, but rather an act of faith.”
― Celso Cukierkorn, Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!

“Some of us aim at being good
I prefer to aim at being better”
― Celso Cukierkorn, Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!

“After the Jews crossed the sea and the desert, they reached the Promised Land. Scouts were sent to look at the land before settling. When the scouts came back, they reported that the people in the land were giants. “We looked at them and they looked at us as if we were grasshoppers,” they said.
Sometimes when we make a decision to make a change in our lives, we feel just like those scouts. However, if you pay attention to the words of the Bible, it was not the giants living in the land of Israel who believed that the Jews looked like grasshoppers. It was the Jews’ own perception. When they looked at the giants, they believed they were the grasshoppers.”
― Celso Cukierkorn, Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!

“In my mind, the function of the bank is to save your money. The bank should not cost you money.”
― Celso Cukierkorn, Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!

“Today, we are the only people who are more likely to own a professional sports team than to play for one.”
― Celso Cukierkorn, Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!

“Until now, your money has told you what to do and how much to work. Now we’re going to turn that around. You’ll learn to tell your money what to do and how much to work for you.”
― Celso Cukierkorn, Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!

“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)”
― Celso Cukierkorn, Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!

“When I was a small boy, I used to play with toy cars and dream about the day I could own a real one. Many people still play with their cars today. They are in their 20s, 40s, maybe even 70s, but they still behave like little children when it comes to purchasing an automobile.
There is a simple law at work in the universe: if it has a motor, it’s going down in value.”
― Celso Cukierkorn, Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!

“We use money that we don't have to show off to people that we don't even like.”
― Celso Cukierkorn, Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!

“A surrogate activity is an activity that is directed toward an artificial goal that the individual pursues for the sake of the “fulfillment” that he gets from pursuing the goal, not because he needs to attain the goal itself. For instance, there is no practical motive for building enormous muscles, hitting a little ball into a hole or acquiring a complete series of postage stamps. Yet many people in our society devote themselves with passion to bodybuilding, golf or stamp-collecting. Some people are more “other-directed” than others, and therefore will more readily attach importance to a surrogate activity simply because the people around them treat it as important or because society tells them it is important. That is why some people get very serious about essentially trivial activities such as sports, or bridge, or chess, or arcane scholarly pursuits, whereas others who are more clear-sighted never see these things as anything but the surrogate activities that they are, and consequently never attach enough importance to them to satisfy their need for the power process in that way.”
― Theodore J. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future

“The degree of personal freedom that exists in a society is determined more by the economic and technological structure of the society than by its laws or its form of government. Most of the Indian nations of New England were monarchies, and many of the cities of the Italian Renaissance were controlled by dictators. But in reading about these societies one gets the impression that they allowed far more personal freedom than our society does.
In part this was because they lacked efficient mechanisms for enforcing the ruler’s will: There were no modern, well-organised police forces, no rapid long-distance communications, no surveillance cameras, no dossiers of information about the lives of average citizens. Hence it was relatively easy to evade control.”
― Theodore J. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future

“73. ...There is no law that says we have to go to work every day and follow our employer’s orders. Legally there is nothing to prevent us from going to live in the wild like primitive people or from going into business for ourselves. But in practice there is very little wild country left, and there is room in the economy for only a limited number of small business owners. Hence most of us can survive only as someone else’s employee.”
― Theodore J. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future

“The conservatives are fools: They whine about the decay of traditional values, yet they enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth. Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, and that such rapid changes inevitably break down traditional values.”
― Theodore J. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future

“A genius is the one most like himself.”
― Thelonious Monk

“Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.
If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in double dawns; tossing tumultuously under vast suns of jade green and balas-ruby orange; swaying and weltering in rich twilights, in aurora-curtained nights, they resembled fields of rooted serpents that dance eternally to an other-worldly music.”
― Clark Ashton Smith, Lost Worlds

“Directly after copulation, the devil's laughter is heard.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Political power grows out of the barrel of the gun...”
― Mao Tse-tung

“Remember these words when I am dead. First be sure you're right, then go ahead.”
― Davy Crockett

“If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything.”
― Miyamoto Musashi

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.”
― Oscar Wilde