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.

There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.

If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don’t get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.

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

India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

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.

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.

Money for me today does not really matter.

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

It’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

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

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

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

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

I believe we live in a love-starved society. Everywhere you go there are probably people who haven’t had the right kind of love in their lives.

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

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

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

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

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

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

We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we’re going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we’re also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

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.

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.

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

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.

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

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

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

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.

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.

When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.

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

Money without brains is always dangerous.

I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, ‚Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we’ll talk.‘

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.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

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.

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.

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.

I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn’t stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

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

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

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

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

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

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

A great fortune is a great slavery.

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.

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.

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

Time is money.

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

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

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.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.