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

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

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.

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

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it’s not about the money.

Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual’s cash flow and wealth.

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.

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.

If I was a billionaire, I’d be smart with my money.

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.

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.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

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

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.

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

Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?

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

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

We can’t get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can’t just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

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

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

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.

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

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

I shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

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

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

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.

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.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Time is money.

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.

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.

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.

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

A man in debt is so far a slave.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

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.

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.

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

I’m a bit like the Queen in that I don’t carry much cash.

Money can’t buy life.

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

Money without brains is always dangerous.

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

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.

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

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