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

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.

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

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don’t buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

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.

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

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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.

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

A penny saved is two pence clear.

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

Watch your finances like a hawk.

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

A penny saved is a penny earned.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

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

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

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.

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

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

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.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.

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

A man in debt is so far a slave.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

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

Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?

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.

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

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

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?

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.

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.

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

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

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

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

If you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Remember that credit is money.

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

Thrift is of great revenue.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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