Choose FI Quotes

“Start each day by reading or listening to positive material that will help develop a growth mindset for thirty minutes. Make a list of ten skills or talents you have or want to develop. How can you combine them in unique ways to add value to the lives of others?”
― Chris Mamula, Choose FI: Your Blueprint to Financial Independence

“Hornsby said if you owe less than double your salary and are employed by a for-profit company in the public sector, you should probably refinance. Get the lowest rate possible to reduce the interest. Pay the loans back as quickly as possible. Move forward with your life.”
― Chris Mamula, Choose FI: Your Blueprint to Financial Independence

“Building a network is not an excuse to mindlessly drop hundreds of dollars a month on unhealthy fast food while sitting around complaining about office politics. It means strategically spending time and money to develop meaningful connections with people who can positively influence your life.”
― Chris Mamula, Choose FI: Your Blueprint to Financial Independence

“you should have a running list of three people that you’re always watching: someone senior to you that you want to emulate, a peer who you think is better at the job than you are and who you respect, and someone subordinate who’s doing the job you did . . . better than you did it.”
― Chris Mamula, Choose FI: Your Blueprint to Financial Independence

“Taking action to start moving in the right direction, even when we don’t know exactly what we’re doing or why we’re doing it, will start providing the foundation upon which future actions begin to build.”
― Chris Mamula, Choose FI: Your Blueprint to Financial Independence

“When you have decided where you want to be in ten years, twenty years, in thirty years, it suddenly becomes very easy to line your finances up and to realize how much you’re going to need to save in order to facilitate that lifestyle.”
― Chris Mamula, Choose FI: Your Blueprint to Financial Independence

“The whole thing isn’t really about money. It’s about living the right way, and money is just a facilitator to that.”
― Chris Mamula, Choose FI: Your Blueprint to Financial Independence

“you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” –Yogi Berra”
― Chris Mamula, Choose FI: Your Blueprint to Financial Independence

“Challenges limiting beliefs and looks at the world in a non-standard way.”
― Chris Mamula, Choose FI: Your Blueprint to Financial Independence

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”
― Chris Mamula, Choose FI: Your Blueprint to Financial Independence

“Why do people stay in lifestyles so out of alignment with their stated values?”
― Chris Mamula, Choose FI: Your Blueprint to Financial Independence

“FI is not about retiring early or retiring at all really. It’s all about having the freedom and flexibility to design your life in alignment with your values.”
― Chris Mamula, Choose FI: Your Blueprint to Financial Independence

“I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.” –Helen Keller”
― Chris Mamula, Choose FI: Your Blueprint to Financial Independence

“Farrington said he hired over one thousand people while working as a Target store manager. He said, “The best hires were people that worked in high school and college and had that experience. Because college can give you some skills, but it doesn’t teach you communication skills. It doesn’t teach you on the job problem-solving skills. And in pretty much every single career, those are the two things that separate the successful from the not successful.”
― Chris Mamula, Choose FI: Your Blueprint to Financial Independence

“FI is not about retiring early or retiring at all really. It’s all about having the freedom and flexibility to design your life in alignment with your values. You can work on things important to you. You can work at your own pace. Or you can choose not to work at all. FI gives you the power to decide. It allows you to use your money as a tool to live a rich life, freeing yourself from the need to go to a job.”
― Chris Mamula, Choose FI: Your Blueprint to Financial Independence