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.

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

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.

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

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

The rich don’t work for money – the rich invent money.

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

Watch your finances like a hawk.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

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

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with 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 for me today does not really matter.

‚Credit‘ is another word for trustworthiness.

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.

An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.

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.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it’s about a lot more than being able to make money.

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

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

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

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

A man in debt is so far a slave.

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

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

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.

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

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

Money has to serve, not to rule.

I began playing Monopoly for real when I was 26 years old. Today, my wife and I have approximately 1,400 little green houses – each paying us monthly. You do not have to be a rocket scientist or have a Harvard degree to play Monopoly for real.

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.

Time is 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.

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

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

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

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I spend my money on my props and my creations. I’m an inventor.

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

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

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

Money ain’t everything.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

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

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

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

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

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let’s face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what’s sexy. And men define what’s feminine. It’s ridiculous.

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.

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