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.

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

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.

I don’t care about money.

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.

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

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

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

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.

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

A man in debt is so far a slave.

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

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.

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.

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

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

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

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

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

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

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

Money for me today does not really matter.

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

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

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Thrift is of great revenue.

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

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

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.

An example of good debt is the debt on the apartment houses I own. That debt is good only as long as there are tenants to pay my mortgages. If tenants stop paying their rent, my good debt turns into bad debt.

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Watch your finances like a hawk.

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.

What I invest in, while not risky for me, may be too risky for most people.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?