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

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.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

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

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.

When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.

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

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 don’t need to publish to make a living.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

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

Money for me today does not really matter.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Remember that credit is money.

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.

Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There’s no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.

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

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

Thrift is of great revenue.

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.

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.

I declared bankruptcy, and that was the worst thing I ever should have done.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I don’t care about money.

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.

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.

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

Money has to serve, not to rule.