Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

Finance is not merely about making money. It’s about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It’s about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite.

All money is a matter of belief.

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

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

A budget tells us what we can’t afford, but it doesn’t keep us from buying it.

I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

You don’t want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can’t enjoy life or take care of your other financial responsibilities.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.