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.

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

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

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

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.

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Remember that credit is 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.

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

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.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

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

Thrift is of great revenue.

Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

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.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

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

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.

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 for me today does not really matter.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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