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.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

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

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Money has a language of its own.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

I just think people should invest in the world. Don’t invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show. I just do not follow his advice.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

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

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

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 don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

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.

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

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

I’m looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

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

Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That’s because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from.

One of the reasons so many people get burned in the market is because they start buying as they see prices going up.

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

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

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.

Remember that credit is money.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.

In the simplest terms, inflation occurs when there’s too much money in the system. On the flip side, deflation occurs when there are too few dollars in circulation.

As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market.

This 90/10 rule holds true in almost anything financial. Take the game of golf, for example. Ten percent of the professional golfers make 90 percent of the money.

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.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

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.

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.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

I’m a cash flow guy. If it doesn’t make me money today, forget about it.

I’m going to retain a lot of Microsoft’s stock.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

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.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

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

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.

During the Enron debacle, it was workers who took the pounding, not bankers. Not only did Enron employees lose their jobs, many lost their retirement savings. That’s because they were at the bottom of the investing food chain.

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

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

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

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.

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