Financial Capability Quotes

I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.

To suggest that we can't pay our debts - that's absolutely not true.

When I was younger, I was into fashion, but I wasn't always able to afford and have the platform to express myself and do different things that I'm able to do now.

If you have the money and you find the one player who can make you win and make the difference, no matter how expensive he is, you should do it. But there are not many players in the world who will make a real difference.

One of the strongest lessons I learned in doing six months of work on retirement topic was how absolutely crucial the Social Security system is for the great mass of Americans. The research of professionals and our own reporting convinced me that many millions of people are not capable of effectively managing the finances for their own retirement.

I can get billions of dollars with comparative ease, but when I get down to the practical proposition about personnel … all of those billions are futile unless you provide the highly trained personnel.

How can a guy talk about $20 or $30 million if he's never even made $8 or $9 million?

I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives.

I don't think I'm particularly good with money, but I have made some.

Government is the greatest combination for forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined.

If you have the wherewithal to have a lot of money, have it.

Without money nothing gets done.

An erection at will is the moral equivalent of a valid credit card.

Everybody asks me if I've always been a sneakerhead. No. I was never a sneakerhead until I had the money to be a sneakerhead.

It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm.

I am damn good with money.

Have you ever been offered a job by a poor person? No one has.

He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.

Finances completely determine what we can do and how quickly we can move.

When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.

Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense

You can’t have the goods and services and the benefits of a government if you’re not willing to pay taxes …. I am proud of the fact that I can pay $33 million of taxes. I put out a press release when I did that.

We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.

I was able to afford a car that didn't break down every five minutes.

If you can afford to eat yourself fat, you can afford to pay to go to WeightWatchers if you think that is the answer.