Top 180 Suze Orman Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “To enjoy a long, comfortable retirement, save more today.”

— Suze Orman

52. “A pile of bills and statements – whether paid or not – is a sign that someone is clueless about what’s coming in and going out.”

— Suze Orman

53. “I want to see a new system. I believe that the credit scoring system is broken. That’s my belief.”

— Suze Orman

54. “You can’t build a foundation on lies.”

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55. “No well-planned retirement should be without long term care insurance. It is the very cornerstone of retirement security.”

— Suze Orman

56. “I simply want you to give to yourself as much as you give of yourself. By taking care of yourself financially, you will truly be able to take care of those you love.”

— Suze Orman

57. “Look everywhere you can to cut a little bit from your expenses. It will all add up to a meaningful sum.”

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58. “The truth will always lead you to a better place and a bigger place. And every single setback, every single one, has led me – not in my time, but in the time that it was meant to happen – to a place that I never in a million years could have imagined that I could go or become.”

— Suze Orman

59. “Many of the good things would never have happened if the bad events hadn’t happened first.”

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60. “The key to making money is to stay invested.”

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61. “Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are writing and whom you are writing for. What is your intent? What do you want the reader to get out of it? What do you want to get out of it. It’s also about making a serious time commitment and getting the project done.”

— Suze Orman

62. “Every time you overhear something hurtful, I want you to do something kind for someone else.”

— Suze Orman

63. “Women are fighters. They will fight and fight and fight to get what they need, especially if they have children.”

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64. “You can never solve a financial problem with money. The only way for you to have a larger net worth is for you to go within to see why you are going without.”

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65. “The way to build your savings is by spending less each month.”

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66. “Never cosign a loan. Once you have cosigned, you cannot get out of it – even on your deathbed.”

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67. “So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.”

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68. “If you have debt I’m willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.”

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69. “I’m probably the only bestselling author you know who’s written more books than she’s read.”

— Suze Orman

70. “Power comes from who you are, not what you have, and the transformation starts with how you allow others to treat you.”

— Suze Orman

71. “We tend to focus on assets and forget about debts. Financial security requires facing up to the big picture: assets minus debts.”

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

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73. “A great teacher once taught me that you’ve got to have faith that everything happens for the best. I have had many setbacks in my career and every setback has led me that much further into my truth.”

— Suze Orman

74. “Focus on what you have.”

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75. “We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us.”

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76. “Make this the year you tackle that credit card debt once and for all.”

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77. “Consider a 15- or 20-year fixed-rate mortgage instead of a 30-year, if you can afford the monthly payments – they may not be as high as you think.”

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78. “If you’re going to live in the house make it your goal to just pay off your mortgage.”

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79. “If you’re saving for the long run, it’s actually a good thing when the market is down because the more shares you have, the more you can potentially make when markets rise. And over time – decades, not months – the markets rise more than they fall.”

— Suze Orman

80. “I don’t care how far we’ve come with “women’s liberation,” with all these things. In a man’s mind, he still needs to be the support of his family. He needs to hold up the world.”

— Suze Orman

81. “If you’re in poverty and all you have is a debit card or a prepaid card or you pay in cash, it does not report to a credit bureau. If it doesn’t report to a credit bureau, it cannot create a credit score for yourself.”

— Suze Orman

82. “I am a big believer that orderliness begets wealth.”

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83. “If you have a 50 percent match and you get in trouble financially, you can either withdraw money as a loan, or withdraw the 50 percent match. If you take it out, you have to pay taxes on it, but you still come out ahead.”

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84. “The foundation of a financial fresh start actually has nothing to do with money or specific financial dos and don’ts.”

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85. “I am a financial planner, not a psychiatrist, but I do know that your net worth will rise to meet your self-worth only if your self-worth rises to accept what can be yours.”

— Suze Orman

86. “Once you stop looking for a job, you are no longer considered part of the unemployment number.”

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87. “Remember to remember your power – everything you’ve learned with these steps to financial freedom – and put it all into practice everyday, because in the grand scheme of life, you’ll never really know how things are meant to turn out until they turn out.”

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88. “You must remember the value that you add to others and not just what others have added to you. That’s how we build self-worth, which, in my opinion, is just as important as net worth.”

— Suze Orman

89. “When you give, give from the place of the heart because it is the right thing to do, not the easy thing to do.”

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90. “What happens to your money directly affects the quality of your life – not your stockbroker’s life or your banker’s life, but YOUR life.”

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91. “Be as good to yourself as you are to those you love.”

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92. “A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.”

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93. “The dream of having one’s dream job turned into “Oh my God, I’ll take any job. I’ve been out of work for two years now. I don’t care what I do. I’ll do anything because I don’t have any money”.”

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94. “Abundance is about being rich, with or without money.”

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95. “Men and women both have an equal capacity to make money, but they want money for different reasons. Men want money for power and women want it for comfort, and usually not their own comfort, but the comfort of others in their lives.”

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96. “You will never be powerful in life until you are powerful over your own money. How you think about it, how you feel about it and how you invest it.”

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97. “Put your financial life on autopilot as a form of ‘forced’ saving.”

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98. “People have got to learn: if they don’t have cookies in the cookie jar, they can’t eat cookies.”

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99. “Money is a living entity, and it responds to energy exactly the same way you do. It is drawn to those who welcome it, those who respect it. Wouldn’t you rather be with people who respect you and who don’t want you to be something you’re not? Your money feels the same way.”

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100. “Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I’m going to turn on the lights.”

— Suze Orman