People concerned about inflation today tend to buy big houses and nice cars.

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.

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.

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

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

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

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.

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.

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.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Money for me today does not really matter.

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it’s going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we’ve made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That’s why we did it.

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.

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.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

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.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

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

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need.

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

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

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

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?

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

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.

Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.

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.

I don’t care about money.

I have spoken about inflation, unemployment, farmers‘ problems, security, etc. I keep talking about these issues. I seek answers from the Indian government.

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

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

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

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

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

In the simplest terms, inflation occurs when there’s too much money in the system. On the flip side, deflation occurs when there are too few dollars in circulation.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

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.

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.

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

The dollar has lost over 90 percent of its value since the Fed was created.

I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money… but city and state governments cannot.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

I declared bankruptcy, and that was the worst thing I ever should have done.

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

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

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

If you’re entering anything where there’s an existing marketplace, against large, entrenched competitors, then your product or service needs to be much better than theirs. It can’t be a little bit better, because then you put yourself in the shoes of the consumer… you’re always going to buy the trusted brand unless there’s a big difference.

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

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

The problem with car dealerships is you’ve already decided what you want to buy before you even go there, and you’re really just going there to talk through some annoying negotiation.

Every time the Fed implements ‚quantitative easing,‘ a.k.a. printing more money, two things go up: taxes and inflation. When taxes and inflation go up, more jobs are lost.

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