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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

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

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

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

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

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

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

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

Money has to serve, not to rule.

If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that’s a good discussion. Maybe that’s the way to help close the deficit.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

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

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

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.

Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ‚cause it’s life or death for real.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

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.

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

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

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

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

Time is money.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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

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

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.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life… it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

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.

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.

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.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn’t want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

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.

Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?

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

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.

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

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

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

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

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