Take Charge of Your Money Quotes

“Read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember the big print giveth and the small print taketh away.”

“If you’ve been playing poker for half an hour and you still don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.”

“Speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest.”

“Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.”

“Having a large amount of leverage is like driving a car with a dagger on the steering wheel pointed at your heart. If you do that, you will be a better driver. There will be fewer accidents but when they happen, they will be fatal.”

“It is impossible to unsign a contract, so do all your thinking before you sign.”

“Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.”

“Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none.”

“Nothing tells in the long run like a good judgment, and no sound judgment can remain with the man whose mind is disturbed by the mercurial changes of the stock exchange. It places him under an influence akin to intoxication. What is not, he sees, and what he sees, is not.”

“We have become 99 percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.”

“Attachment to money will always create insecurity no matter how much money you have in the bank.”

“Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.”

“Pay off your debt first. Freedom from debt is worth more than any amount you can earn.”

“Being a smart shopper is the first step to getting rich.”

“Anyone who says he is an expert in the market is lying to you. There is no such thing.”

“I placed too much importance on comparing how much I had to others early on. Then I started realizing time was a far more valuable asset. When I started using money to create more time, I appreciated both more.”

“Credit cards are the worst investment that you can make.”