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

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

Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

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

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

Money without brains is always dangerous.

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.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers‘ money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

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.

The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment… the European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.

When I was young, people lived from paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit card payment.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

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

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

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

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

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we’ll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

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.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

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.

Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ‚cause it’s life or death for real.

Working hard to earn more money and then giving it away in higher taxes isn’t financially intelligent, even if you do put some of it into a retirement account.

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.

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.

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.

Money for me today does not really matter.

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

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

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

I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.

Remember that credit is money.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

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

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

We don’t have to guess what Mitt Romney would have done if he were president. Because he told us. He said we should let foreclosures – and I quote – ‚hit the bottom‘ so the market could – I quote – ‚run its course.‘

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

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

I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life… it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

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

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.

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.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

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

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

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

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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

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

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

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

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

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

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