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.

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.

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

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

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.

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

‚Credit‘ is another word for trustworthiness.

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end – people like myself – should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we’ve ever had 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?

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

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.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

In the middle of a recession, where we’re just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

Thrift is of great revenue.

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

‚Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.‘ Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from.

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

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

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.

Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual’s cash flow and wealth.

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.

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.

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

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

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

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

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.

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

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community – and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

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

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

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.

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

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

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.

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.

Money can’t buy life.

Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes… to an extent, that’s true elsewhere, including the United States, but it’s been pretty extreme in Greece.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Money without brains is always dangerous.

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

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

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.

The IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

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

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