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

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

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.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

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

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.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

Demographics show that we are entering a battle between young and old. I call it the ‚Age War.‘ The young want to hang onto their money to grow their families, businesses, and wealth. The old want the tax and investment dollars of the young to sustain their old age.

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.

Rappers aren’t the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone’s business to be super wealthy.

I just think people should invest in the world. Don’t invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

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

Money has to serve, not to rule.

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.

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

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

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

Until we have comprehensive financial education, we’ll never see the end of our booms and busts.

Looking at 2014, I look back: we made more money off ‚Mailbox Money‘ than we would have made off taking an advance from anybody. We made more money letting our fans buy the stuff directly from us than what any label could have offered us.

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.

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

I have a problem with too much money. I can’t reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

Money can’t buy life.

Working hard to earn more money and then giving it away in higher taxes isn’t financially intelligent, even if you do put some of it into a retirement account.

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.

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

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

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

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

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

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

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

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

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

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

At places like Davos, people like to tell success stories. But their financial success has come with an unthinkable price tag. And on climate change, we have to acknowledge we have failed.

You make more money if you’re generous.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

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

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

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

Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show. I just do not follow his advice.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

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

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

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

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.

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.