Remember that credit is money.

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.

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I’ve got. Somebody’s got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain’t got this, somebody ain’t got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.

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

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

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

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

I haven’t been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I’ve been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don’t blow money. I don’t have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I’ve already had that experience.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

I made lots of mistakes – the number one mistake being trusting other people with my money.

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.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

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

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

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

Money doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.

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

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

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

I don’t care about money.

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

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

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.

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

If I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.

With the amount of money I have, it’s difficult raising children the way I was raised.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.

I spend my money on my props and my creations. I’m an inventor.

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

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

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

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 more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

I believe – we all pay taxes. I’m happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That’s going to bother you.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.

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

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

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.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

I’m a bit like the Queen in that I don’t carry much cash.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

If I was a billionaire, I’d be smart with my money.

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it’s not about the money.

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 fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

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

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?

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

I’m a cash flow guy. If it doesn’t make me money today, forget about it.

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.

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.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘