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

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

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it’s made by Warren Buffett.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

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

Many U.S. investors are already investing overseas rather than at home.

It’s going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I’ll risk saying that we’ll be lucky if something really serious doesn’t happen.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

During the Enron debacle, it was workers who took the pounding, not bankers. Not only did Enron employees lose their jobs, many lost their retirement savings. That’s because they were at the bottom of the investing food chain.

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.

Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I’m the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans.

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.

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

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.

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

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.

Remember that credit is money.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

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

Being willing to donate the taxpayers‘ money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

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

I don’t care about money.

People concerned about inflation today tend to buy big houses and nice cars.

Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

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

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

I want to be financially secure by the time I have kids.

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.

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.

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

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

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

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

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.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

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

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‚Too much of a good thing can be wonderful‘.

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

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

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

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

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

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

One of the reasons so many people get burned in the market is because they start buying as they see prices going up.

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

I began playing Monopoly for real when I was 26 years old. Today, my wife and I have approximately 1,400 little green houses – each paying us monthly. You do not have to be a rocket scientist or have a Harvard degree to play Monopoly for real.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president’s.

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

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