money management quotes

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.

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.

I’m a cash flow guy. If it doesn’t make me money today, forget about it.

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.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

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.

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

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

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

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.

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.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

If I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.

Money doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

‚Credit‘ is another word for trustworthiness.

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.

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

Money has to serve, not to rule.

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

I’m a bit like the Queen in that I don’t carry much cash.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

We’ve all heard stories of lottery winners, rock stars, heirs and heiresses, and professional athletes becoming millionaire morons who wake up rich but are broke by nightfall.

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.

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn’t go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he’s got.

Every dollar I made from DJing, I put into my videos, promotion – everything.

Money can’t buy life.

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

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

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I believe – we all pay taxes. I’m happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That’s going to bother you.

It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

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

Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

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.

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

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

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.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

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

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.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Time is money.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

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