Money without brains is always dangerous.

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

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

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.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.

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

Money has to serve, not to rule.

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.

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

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?

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it’s an illusory sense of control.

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.

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.

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

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.

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

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.

Until we have comprehensive financial education, we’ll never see the end of our booms and busts.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

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.

Remember that credit is money.

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

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

Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?

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

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

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

If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that’s a good discussion. Maybe that’s the way to help close the deficit.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

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

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

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.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

Money can’t buy life.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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.

A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.

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

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

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

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

Time is money.

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

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

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.

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

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.

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.

People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history.

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.

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.

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

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.