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

At my lowest point, I was nearly $700,000 in debt.

Money’s important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don’t have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

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

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

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

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.

Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.

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.

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

Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.

It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

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

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

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

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

A man in debt is so far a slave.

It’s time to start thinking differently about money and debt and start the healing process – and the process toward wealth and freedom. ‚Freedom from Bad Debt‘ can get you started.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren’t happening.

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

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.

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

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

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

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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.

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.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

Remember that credit is money.

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

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

Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show. I just do not follow his advice.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

Thrift is of great revenue.