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.

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.

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

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

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.

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

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

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

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.

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.

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

Money for me today does not really matter.

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it’s humorous, all the attention to it, because it’s hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that’s happened to me.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

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.

I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.

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

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I’m not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.

I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

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

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.

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.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

I just think people should invest in the world. Don’t invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

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

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 gentleman is never rude except on purpose – I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

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?

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Money has a language of its own.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it’s made by Warren Buffett.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

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.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

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.

If he invited you out, he’s got to pay.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

I don’t do any vulgar movements.

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.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

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

A development deal is where they’re giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they’ll put an album out.