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.

The call for debt cancellation is welcome, but debt does not just go away.

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

I’ve never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

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

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

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

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

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.

Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

‚Credit‘ is another word for trustworthiness.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

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.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

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

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.

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

Thrift is of great revenue.

You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.

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

Being willing to donate the taxpayers‘ money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

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.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

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

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

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 believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

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

Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.

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

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.

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

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

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

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

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

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.

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

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

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

Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‚What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?‘. The answer is yes, that’s what I’m telling you.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Money’s important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don’t have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

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

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

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

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.