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.

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

I want to retire and want to be able to live out my days financially secure. That’s what everyone wants.

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

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

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

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.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.

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

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

I shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

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

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

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.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

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.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

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.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

When I was young, many people worked for a company with a pension plan that covered them for as long as they lived. If they didn’t have a pension plan, they could count on Social Security and Medicare.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

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

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?

I am very concerned about the millions of baby boomers who are counting on the stock market to deliver them a safe, sound, long retirement. I am afraid the baby boomers who are counting on the stock market are in trouble.

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.

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

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

Every time the Fed implements ‚quantitative easing,‘ a.k.a. printing more money, two things go up: taxes and inflation. When taxes and inflation go up, more jobs are lost.

An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

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 can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.

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.

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.

Thrift is of great revenue.

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

With the amount of money I have, it’s difficult raising children the way I was raised.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

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.

Time is money.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

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.

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

I didn’t pay my taxes for years.

Money has to serve, not to rule.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

The call for debt cancellation is welcome, but debt does not just go away.

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

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.

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.