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

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

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.

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

If you must invest in paper, learn to be an options trader. Then you will know how to make money whether the markets are going up or down.

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

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

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

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.

Many U.S. investors are already investing overseas rather than at home.

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

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

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.

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.

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.

Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ‚cause it’s life or death for real.

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

Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show. I just do not follow his advice.

When I was young, many people worked for a company with a pension plan that covered them for as long as they lived. If they didn’t have a pension plan, they could count on Social Security and Medicare.

Money ain’t everything.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

There may be less of a chance of losing all the money you put into a mutual fund than there is of losing all the money you put into lottery tickets, but you’re never going to win big in a mutual fund.

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.

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

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.

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it’s about a lot more than being able to make money.

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.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‚Too much of a good thing can be wonderful‘.

Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

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.

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

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

Money for me today does not really matter.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

I have a problem with too much money. I can’t reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.

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

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.

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

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

During the Enron debacle, it was workers who took the pounding, not bankers. Not only did Enron employees lose their jobs, many lost their retirement savings. That’s because they were at the bottom of the investing food chain.

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

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

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

A true capitalist doesn’t have a job, because other people and other people’s money work for them.

Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.

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 and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

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

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

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

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