At my lowest point, I was nearly $700,000 in debt.

Money for me today does not really matter.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What’s happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It’s going to make the situation worse.

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

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

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

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.

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

Remember that credit is money.

When I was born, the economy wasn’t in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges – on gifts, trades, loans – and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.

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.

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

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.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.

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

People concerned about inflation today tend to buy big houses and nice cars.

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 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.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

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

Don’t hold against me that I don’t own – that I don’t own a single stock or bond. Don’t hold it – I have no savings accounts.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

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

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

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.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

I don’t care about money.

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

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.

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 believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn’t enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

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

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

A man in debt is so far a slave.

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.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

What I invest in, while not risky for me, may be too risky for most people.

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

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so exciting.

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

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.

Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

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

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

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

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.

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.

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

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