I haven’t been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I’ve been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don’t blow money. I don’t have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I’ve already had that experience.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

I shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

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.

I would say raising capital is one of the weakest things for most entrepreneurs.

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

You know people talk about federal money as if it falls from heaven. You know we thank heaven for it, but it came out of people’s pockets – and I’ve driven all over Washington, D.C., I cannot find the money tree.

Every dollar I made from DJing, I put into my videos, promotion – everything.

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

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

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

It’s time to start thinking differently about money and debt and start the healing process – and the process toward wealth and freedom. ‚Freedom from Bad Debt‘ can get you started.

Money doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.

Money has to serve, not to rule.

Money often costs too much.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

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.

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.

Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you’re covered and there’s not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

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.

When I was young, many people worked for a company with a pension plan that covered them for as long as they lived. If they didn’t have a pension plan, they could count on Social Security and Medicare.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

The rich continue to get rich the same way they always have – by understanding how money works and making their money work for them.

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

I’m a cash flow guy. If it doesn’t make me money today, forget about it.

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.

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

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

I spend my money on my props and my creations. I’m an inventor.

I am very concerned about the millions of baby boomers who are counting on the stock market to deliver them a safe, sound, long retirement. I am afraid the baby boomers who are counting on the stock market are in trouble.

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it’s not about the money.

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

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

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

With the amount of money I have, it’s difficult raising children the way I was raised.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

Money’s important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don’t have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

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

I want to retire and want to be able to live out my days financially secure. That’s what everyone wants.

I believe – we all pay taxes. I’m happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That’s going to bother you.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

Money can’t buy life.

Time is money.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

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

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.