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Presentation Date: September 19, 2017
- “All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.” – Samuel Butler
- “At the end of the day, if you’re wasting your time by not investing in yourself, you’re going to waste away—and that would be the greatest waste of all.” – Richie Norton
- “If you don’t plan to have someone work for you, you will work for someone else. There is no in-between.” – Ehab Atalla
- “Financial peace isn’t the acquisition of stuff. It’s learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can’t win until you do this.” – Dave Ramsey
- “Wealth is not limited; rather it grows. It grows whenever man exerts energy.” – Abhishek Kumar, The Richest Engineer
Presentation Date: September 12, 2017
- “What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.” – Abraham Maslow
- “Make yourself necessary to somebody.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.” – Tony Robbins
- “Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.” – Malcolm Gladwell
- “In Austin we want to be ourselves, and we’re all on a journey to be ourselves.”- Bijoy Goswami
Presentation Date: September 5, 2017
- “We do a lot in partnership with the W-2 program, teaching classes that help meet the requirements for some of the W-2 clients. Other classes include time management, stress management, financial education, and anger management.” – Lara Anderson
- “The IRS calls it a 1040 Form because for every 50 dollars you make, you get 10 and they get 40.” – Anonymous
- “The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.” – Albert Einstein
- “Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.” – Frankilin D. Roosevelt
- Moderately Confused Comic Strip, Feb 2. 2013
Presentation Date: August 29, 2017
- “Capital must be propelled by self- interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence.” – Walter Bageho
- “Corporation, an ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.” – Ambrose Bierce
- “Earnings can be as pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.” – Warren Buffet
- “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter F. Drucker
- “A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” – Dwight David Eisenhower
Presentation Date: August 22, 2017
- “I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.” – Gillian Anderson
- “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” – William Arthur Ward
- “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.” – Amelia Earhart
- “In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” – Eric Hoffer
- “Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.” – Joel A. Barker
Presentation Date: August 15, 2017
- “Be stubborn about your goals, and flexible about your methods.” – Anonymous
- “Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it.” – Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How to Become the Person You’ve Always Wanted to Be
- It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.” – Viktor E. Frankl
- “The most important thing in life is knowing the most important things in life.” – David F. Jakielo
Presentation Date: August 8, 2017
- “Finding a job that is a good fit is as much about you selecting the right company as it is about them selecting the right candidate.” – Miles Anthony Smith
- “Chase career relationships, not job postings.” – John Tarnoff, Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50
- “The most important tool you have on a resume is language.” – Jay Samit
- “Job searching is like a pinata – if you hit it hard enough you’ll be rewarded.” – Unknown
- “Desperation works in job search as well as it does in dating.” – Darrell Gurney
Presentation Date: August 1, 2017
- “Life is about serving rather than being served, giving rather than getting, and showing people that you care.” – Ken Blanchard
- “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell
- “We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents.” – Eric Hoffer
- “Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.” – Hugh Prather
- “Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.” – Mark Twain
Presentation Date: July 18, 2017
- “We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.” – Jim Rohn
- “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – Christopher Robin, Winnie the Pooh
- “Sometimes, you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” – Dr. Suess
- “Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.” – Minna Thomas Antrim
- “There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.” – Laurence J. Peter
Presentation Date: July 11, 2017
- “For gosh sakes, it’s not a horse race as to how many business cards you can fling out there! What a turnoff.” – Beth Ramsey
- “Networking is people looking for people looking for people.” – Unknown
- “Be yourself: everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
- “It is better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” – Marilyn Monroe
- “It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter)
