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.

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

Money doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.

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?

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

I don’t want to spend money the club doesn’t have; I don’t want to hold a player that doesn’t want to stay.

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.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

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.

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

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

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

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

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.

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

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

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.

Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.

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

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.

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.

‚Credit‘ is another word for trustworthiness.

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.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

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

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.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

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

Money can’t buy life.

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

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

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.

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

Money ain’t everything.

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.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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

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

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

A true capitalist doesn’t have a job, because other people and other people’s money work for them.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character.

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.

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.

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

When I was young, people lived from paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit card payment.

Every dollar I made from DJing, I put into my videos, promotion – everything.

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

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

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.

Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.

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

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

A man in debt is so far a slave.

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

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

I want to retire and want to be able to live out my days financially secure. That’s what everyone wants.

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.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

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