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

The rich continue to get rich the same way they always have – by understanding how money works and making their money work for them.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don’t want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we’re too religious, we won’t be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.

I shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

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.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

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

The rules are there for a reason.

Integrity has no need of rules.

A penny saved is two pence clear.

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

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

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

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

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

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

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Money can’t buy life.

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

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

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

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

In time of war the laws are silent.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.

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.

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

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

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

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

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

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

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

Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

‚Credit‘ is another word for trustworthiness.

The rich don’t work for money – the rich invent money.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

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.

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

One of the reasons so many people get burned in the market is because they start buying as they see prices going up.

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

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

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.

Money without brains is always dangerous.