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

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

Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ‚cause it’s life or death for real.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

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

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

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.

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

Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.

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.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

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

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

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

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

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

You know people talk about federal money as if it falls from heaven. You know we thank heaven for it, but it came out of people’s pockets – and I’ve driven all over Washington, D.C., I cannot find the money tree.

I would say raising capital is one of the weakest things for most entrepreneurs.

On ‚Mystic River,‘ I had to cut my salary and everyone else’s to get it made.

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

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

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

Watch your finances like a hawk.

Money has to serve, not to rule.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

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.

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.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

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

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

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

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

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.

Money often costs too much.

Thrift is of great revenue.

I don’t care about money.

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

Money for me today does not really matter.

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.

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

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

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.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

When I was a kid, there were no credit cards. Instead, retailers offered layaway plans. My mom would go to a store, such as a furniture outlet, choose the sofa she wanted, and put it on layaway. That meant she put a little money down to hold the sofa, and every payday she’d pay a little toward the purchase.

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.

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

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in 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.

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don’t cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That’s going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.

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

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.

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?

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let’s face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what’s sexy. And men define what’s feminine. It’s ridiculous.

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

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.

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

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

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.