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

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.

Here’s what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

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

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it’s made by Warren Buffett.

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

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

Whatever the reviewers feel about ‚The Casual Vacancy‘, it is what I wanted it to be, and you can’t say fairer than that as a writer.

You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I’ve never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

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

I’m evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

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 business does well, the stock eventually follows.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

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

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.

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.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

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

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

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.

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

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one’s success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

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

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

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.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘

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

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

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 think that I know the value of a dollar.

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

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

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

I don’t do research. I never have.

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there’s been an Axl Rose. And it’s just boring. It’s totally boring to me.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.