A man in debt is so far a slave.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.

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.

I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.

Money ain’t everything.

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

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

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

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.

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

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

‚Credit‘ is another word for trustworthiness.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

It’s time to start thinking differently about money and debt and start the healing process – and the process toward wealth and freedom. ‚Freedom from Bad Debt‘ can get you started.

The rich don’t work for money – the rich invent money.

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.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

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

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

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

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

I spend my money on my props and my creations. I’m an inventor.

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.

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

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

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

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

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

I don’t need to publish to make a living.

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

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

If I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

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

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.

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

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

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.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

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

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.

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

Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery was abolished there hardly thirty years before it was abolished in Cuba.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

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

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.

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.