Thrift is of great revenue.

Money for me today does not really matter.

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.

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.

Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That’s not possible on $1 a day.

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

I cap myself when I shop; I don’t like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it’s scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.

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.

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

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

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?

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

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.

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

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

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don’t cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That’s going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.

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

You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.

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.

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

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.

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.

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

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.

I know it’s going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we’re in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

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

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.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

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.

There may be less of a chance of losing all the money you put into a mutual fund than there is of losing all the money you put into lottery tickets, but you’re never going to win big in a mutual fund.

Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That’s because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

When I was a kid, there were no credit cards. Instead, retailers offered layaway plans. My mom would go to a store, such as a furniture outlet, choose the sofa she wanted, and put it on layaway. That meant she put a little money down to hold the sofa, and every payday she’d pay a little toward the purchase.

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

Remember that credit is money.

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.

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

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

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

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

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

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.

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

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

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

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

On ‚Mystic River,‘ I had to cut my salary and everyone else’s to get it made.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

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

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.

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

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