“Remember, the essence of becoming wealthy is to produce more than you consume and save the difference. But it'shard to maximize value working for somebody else. [...] There is cause and there is effect. You don't want to be theeffect of somebody else's cause. You want to be the cause for everything in your life. That implies working foryourself."On Getting And Keeping Money, The Casey Report, July 2011”

“Everything else you see and experience in this world is effect, and that includes your feelings. The cause is always your thoughts.”

“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”

“I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it?'" 'The way I want it?'" 'Yeah. The way you want it. Don't you want it to be something more than what it is?'" 'What'st eh point? I can't change it.'" 'That's the point. If you don't, it will change you and it'll be your fault cause you let it. I let it. And messed up my life.'" 'Mess it up how?'" 'Forgot it.'" 'Forgot?'" 'Forgot it was mine. My life. I just ran up and down the streets wishing I was somebody else.”

“If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.”

“Over the course of your life you are actually hundreds of different people. You are a different person at the coffee shop than you are at the bar, and a different person for the dry cleaner than you are for your boyfriend, and a different person at work than you are on vacation. You are nobody in particular. But once somebody finds you and loves you, you have to keep being the person that they love. You want thier love. You need to keep getting it even if it means pretending...but no one loved her and so she could keep changing.”