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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

The call for debt cancellation is welcome, but debt does not just go away.

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

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.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn’t afford to pay attention.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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.

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

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.

When I was born, the economy wasn’t in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

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.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.

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

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

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

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 believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

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

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.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

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

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

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.

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

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

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

The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.

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

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

A person who can’t pay gets another person who can’t pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don’t make either of them able to do a walking-match.

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

Thrift is of great revenue.

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.

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

Money for me today does not really matter.

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges – on gifts, trades, loans – and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.