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

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

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.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

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

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.

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

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

Remember that credit is money.

She got her looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon.

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.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

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.

Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show. I just do not follow his advice.

Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.

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.

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

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.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

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

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

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

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

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

Many U.S. investors are already investing overseas rather than at home.

It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

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

I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it’s made by Warren Buffett.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

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 one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That’s approaching evil.

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.

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

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

It’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code – with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It’s very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

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

With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing cannot do that. The next generation of DNA sequencing needs to be able to do this. If somebody invents this, then we can start to very precisely identify cures for diseases.

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

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

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

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

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

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

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

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

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’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.

I just think people should invest in the world. Don’t invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

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.

If you must invest in paper, learn to be an options trader. Then you will know how to make money whether the markets are going up or down.

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