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.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

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

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

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

When I was a kid, there were no credit cards. Instead, retailers offered layaway plans. My mom would go to a store, such as a furniture outlet, choose the sofa she wanted, and put it on layaway. That meant she put a little money down to hold the sofa, and every payday she’d pay a little toward the purchase.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

When I was young, many people worked for a company with a pension plan that covered them for as long as they lived. If they didn’t have a pension plan, they could count on Social Security and Medicare.

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

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

We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we’re going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we’re also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Social Security’s not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you’ve got to put all of it on the table.

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

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.

If I have cash and I can’t figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

I have a problem with too much money. I can’t reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

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.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

I want to retire and want to be able to live out my days financially secure. That’s what everyone wants.

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

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

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

Money for me today does not really matter.

India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

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

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

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.

I am very concerned about the millions of baby boomers who are counting on the stock market to deliver them a safe, sound, long retirement. I am afraid the baby boomers who are counting on the stock market are in trouble.

If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don’t get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.

There may be less of a chance of losing all the money you put into a mutual fund than there is of losing all the money you put into lottery tickets, but you’re never going to win big in a mutual fund.

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.

If you don’t like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors‘ and mutual fund managers‘ retirement.

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

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

Many people will have nothing at the end of their working lives.

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn’t go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he’s got.

Working hard to earn more money and then giving it away in higher taxes isn’t financially intelligent, even if you do put some of it into a retirement account.

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

We’ve all heard stories of lottery winners, rock stars, heirs and heiresses, and professional athletes becoming millionaire morons who wake up rich but are broke by nightfall.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, ‚Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we’ll talk.‘

I believe we live in a love-starved society. Everywhere you go there are probably people who haven’t had the right kind of love in their lives.