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

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‚Too much of a good thing can be wonderful‘.

Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

I don’t care about money.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren’t happening.

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

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

I’m a genetic optimist.

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.

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

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

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

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

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

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

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.

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.

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

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.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

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

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

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.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

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.

Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the ‚intrinsic value‘ of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.

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

It’s perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.

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.

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

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

I want to be financially secure by the time I have kids.

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.

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.

Thrift is of great revenue.

There may be less of a chance of losing all the money you put into a mutual fund than there is of losing all the money you put into lottery tickets, but you’re never going to win big in a mutual fund.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

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

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I’m the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans.

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

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

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

During the Enron debacle, it was workers who took the pounding, not bankers. Not only did Enron employees lose their jobs, many lost their retirement savings. That’s because they were at the bottom of the investing food chain.

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

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

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

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

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

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

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.