Brent Kessel

Don't get me wrong. I am by no means saying that you can't be both wealthy and happy. But whether you have a seven-figure trust fund or a pile of unpaid bills on your kitchen table, the path to freedom requires that you focus more on your inner life than on your outer financial circumstances.

Love, compassion, forgiveness, and contentment are at the core of every major religion.

The returns among all active managers engaged in picking large stocks is no better than if they were flipping coins to help them make their selections.

Though outer wealth rarely leads to inner wealth, inner wealth often does lead to outer wealth.

Fear about money is, at its root, the fear of not surviving.

We form our Core Story, whatever its content, with the unconscious hope that if we follow it, we’ll be protected from feeling difficult or painful emotions.

Ninety-nine percent of people will die having not examined their conditioning and beliefs in a meaningful way.

We get what we think we deserve.

When there’s too much stress or too much worry, look inward! Read more. Think. Trying to find the answer from outside yourself is nonsense! Think more.

Say what you will about a market economy, but one of the bonuses of such a system is that it gives us the opportunity to benefit both other human beings and ourselves.

Until you can identify and examine your Core Story, your outer financial life will be a mirror of your unconscious expectations.