If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that’s a good discussion. Maybe that’s the way to help close the deficit.

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end – people like myself – should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we’ve ever had it.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you.

If I have cash and I can’t figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

If you don’t like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors‘ and mutual fund managers‘ retirement.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it’s going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we’ve made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That’s why we did it.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn’t want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

There may be less of a chance of losing all the money you put into a mutual fund than there is of losing all the money you put into lottery tickets, but you’re never going to win big in a mutual fund.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

Money for me today does not really matter.

I want to reform the tax code so that it’s simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 – the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

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.

If I was a billionaire, I’d be smart with my money.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama’s plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it’s their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

We can’t get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can’t just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It’s not a popular position.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history.

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn’t go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he’s got.

Time is money.

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

Demographics show that we are entering a battle between young and old. I call it the ‚Age War.‘ The young want to hang onto their money to grow their families, businesses, and wealth. The old want the tax and investment dollars of the young to sustain their old age.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

Many people will have nothing at the end of their working lives.

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

I have a problem with too much money. I can’t reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

Social Security’s not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you’ve got to put all of it on the table.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

But let me perfectly clear, because I know you’ll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.

We’ve all heard stories of lottery winners, rock stars, heirs and heiresses, and professional athletes becoming millionaire morons who wake up rich but are broke by nightfall.

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

When I was a kid, there were no credit cards. Instead, retailers offered layaway plans. My mom would go to a store, such as a furniture outlet, choose the sofa she wanted, and put it on layaway. That meant she put a little money down to hold the sofa, and every payday she’d pay a little toward the purchase.

I will cut taxes – cut taxes – for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital… the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.