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

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 for me today does not really matter.

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.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

There was a point where I really felt I had ‚penniless divorcee lone parent‘ tattooed on my head.

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

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.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

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.

I made lots of mistakes – the number one mistake being trusting other people with my money.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

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

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’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.

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.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

I let the American people down.

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

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.

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

Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?

Thrift is of great revenue.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

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

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.

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.

Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you’ve ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It’s a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in.

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.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

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.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

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.

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

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

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

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

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

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

I don’t think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I’m enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

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

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.