I think that I know the value of a dollar.

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

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

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

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If I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.

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

I want to be financially secure by the time I have kids.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

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.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you.

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

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

Money can’t buy life.

I haven’t been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I’ve been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don’t blow money. I don’t have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I’ve already had that experience.

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

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

Remember that credit is money.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

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

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

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

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I’ve got. Somebody’s got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain’t got this, somebody ain’t got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

With the amount of money I have, it’s difficult raising children the way I was raised.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

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

You know people talk about federal money as if it falls from heaven. You know we thank heaven for it, but it came out of people’s pockets – and I’ve driven all over Washington, D.C., I cannot find the money tree.

Money has to serve, not to rule.

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.

Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ‚cause it’s life or death for real.

I believe – we all pay taxes. I’m happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That’s going to bother you.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

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.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

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

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.

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

People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.

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

The rich continue to get rich the same way they always have – by understanding how money works and making their money work for them.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.