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

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We’ll break out of it. It takes time.

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

Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight.

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

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.

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.

Thrift is of great revenue.

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

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

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

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.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

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

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

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.

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

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

Money ain’t everything.

I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

Money has to serve, not to rule.

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

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

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

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 people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that’s a good discussion. Maybe that’s the way to help close the deficit.

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.

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.

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.

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

We’ve all heard stories of lottery winners, rock stars, heirs and heiresses, and professional athletes becoming millionaire morons who wake up rich but are broke by nightfall.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

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

Two kids in their dorm room can’t start anything important in space today. That’s why I want to take the assets I have from Amazon and translate that into the heavy-lifting infrastructure that will allow the next generation to have dynamic entrepreneurialism in space, to build that transportation network.

I don’t care about money.

When I was young, people lived from paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit card payment.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

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

A great fortune is a great slavery.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn’t believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.

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.

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

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