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.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

If I have cash and I can’t figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

Of course, I do everything for money.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

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.

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

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

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.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

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

America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

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

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

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.

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.

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.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

We have the best government that money can buy.

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.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

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.

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

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

I hold the door for the ladies – I’m a gent.

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

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character.

This 90/10 rule holds true in almost anything financial. Take the game of golf, for example. Ten percent of the professional golfers make 90 percent of the money.

A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

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

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

Percentage margins don’t matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

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

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

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

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

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin‘ wealthy.