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 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.

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

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?

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

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

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.

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

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

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

Watch your finances like a hawk.

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

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

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 think that I know the value of a dollar.

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

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

Thrift is of great revenue.

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

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.

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

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

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so exciting.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

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

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

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

At the height of the Enron mania, the company’s market value was $65 billion. Once the dust cleared, the final value was $0.

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.

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.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

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.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

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

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

Remember that credit is money.

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

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.