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

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

I just don’t like mutual funds. I think they’re a rip-off.

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

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

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.

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

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.

Remember that credit is money.

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.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

Money for me today does not really matter.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

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

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

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

We all have limitations. I don’t have the right genes to be an Olympic weightlifter. I don’t have the right genetics to be an Olympic sprinter. Or gymnast. Sure, if I trained my whole life, perhaps I could have become fairly decent in those sports.

It’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you.

It’s perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.

Thrift is of great revenue.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

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

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.

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

Our favorite holding period is forever.

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.

She got her looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon.

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.

Don’t hold against me that I don’t own – that I don’t own a single stock or bond. Don’t hold it – I have no savings accounts.

If you must invest in paper, learn to be an options trader. Then you will know how to make money whether the markets are going up or down.

Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That’s approaching evil.

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

Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code – with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It’s very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

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

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

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.

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.

With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing cannot do that. The next generation of DNA sequencing needs to be able to do this. If somebody invents this, then we can start to very precisely identify cures for diseases.

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

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

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We’ll break out of it. It takes time.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

I declared bankruptcy, and that was the worst thing I ever should have done.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

I don’t care about money.

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.

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

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

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

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?