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

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

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.

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

Money has to serve, not to rule.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

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

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn’t want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

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

I like money, but it’s never been about the 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.

Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.

Thrift is of great revenue.

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.

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.

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

People concerned about inflation today tend to buy big houses and nice cars.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Watch your finances like a hawk.

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 don’t care about money.

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

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.

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.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That’s approaching evil.

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

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

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

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

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

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

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

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.

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.

Money for me today does not really matter.

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.

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

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.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

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

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

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

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

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

A man in debt is so far a slave.

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