Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.

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

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

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

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

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.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

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

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

There’s 20 companies that I have investments in – some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure.

The product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don’t understand.

We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We’ll break out of it. It takes time.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

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

When you say ‚follow me on Twitter,‘ and you get 10 million people to follow you – you just leveraged your influence to add value to an app that you have no ownership in.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.

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 people will have nothing at the end of their working lives.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

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

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

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

To add value to others, one must first value others.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.