I declared bankruptcy, and that was the worst thing I ever should have done.

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

People concerned about inflation today tend to buy big houses and nice cars.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.

My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn’t believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.

When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was – my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

I’ve never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I want to be financially secure by the time I have kids.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Money for me today does not really matter.

Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you’ve ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It’s a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in.

Give me five minutes with a person’s checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

I let the American people down.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, ‚Don’t get comfortable, because we may not be here long.‘

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

I made lots of mistakes – the number one mistake being trusting other people with my money.

Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?

At the height of the Enron mania, the company’s market value was $65 billion. Once the dust cleared, the final value was $0.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I’m the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‚What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?‘. The answer is yes, that’s what I’m telling you.

Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?

At my lowest point, I was nearly $700,000 in debt.

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

If I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

I’ve always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I’ve heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

I just don’t like mutual funds. I think they’re a rip-off.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.

Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

The call for debt cancellation is welcome, but debt does not just go away.