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

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

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.

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

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

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn’t be in this business.

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.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the ‚intrinsic value‘ of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.

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

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.

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

If you’re worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it’s almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.

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

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

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

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.

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

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

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

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Money has to serve, not to rule.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.

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

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

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

A financial institution has the task of taking risks, and if it’s a well run institution – say, Goldman Sachs – it tries to cover the potential losses to itself, but only to itself.

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

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

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

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

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

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

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.

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

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

Remember that credit is money.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

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

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.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

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.

Time is money.

Money can’t buy life.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.