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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky.

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.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

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.

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

Don’t hold against me that I don’t own – that I don’t own a single stock or bond. Don’t hold it – I have no savings accounts.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

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.

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

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.

Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery.

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

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.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

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?

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

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

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

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

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.

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.

I don’t care about money.

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

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they’re not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.

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

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn’t have to advertise them.

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.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Thrift is of great revenue.

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

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.