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

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.

A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.

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.

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

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

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.

I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

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.

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.

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.

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

Remember that credit is money.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.

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

Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.

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.

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

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.

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?

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

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

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

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.

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.

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

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

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

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.

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.

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

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Millions of Americans and people around the world, especially young people who face intense financial challenges today, haven’t been taught how to take control of their financial future.

I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

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

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.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.

I began playing Monopoly for real when I was 26 years old. Today, my wife and I have approximately 1,400 little green houses – each paying us monthly. You do not have to be a rocket scientist or have a Harvard degree to play Monopoly for real.

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

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

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don’t know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn’t have cash on him.

Money for me today does not really matter.

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 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.

Money is like an arm or leg – use it or lose it.

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

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.

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.

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

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That’s approaching evil.

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.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

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.