Wealth Building Quotes

It's always weird when people approach me to make an investment. I tell them, 'I don't need any more money. I'm good.' Then I wait for their expression. That part is entertaining, because people look at you like you're crazy when you say you don't need any more money. Who says that?

The key to financial freedom and great wealth is a person's ability or skill to convert earned income into passive income and/or portfolio income.

Smart financial planning - such as budgeting, saving for emergencies, and preparing for retirement - can help households enjoy better lives while weathering financial shocks. Financial education can play a key role in getting to these outcomes.

Private property including and kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as 'wealth building' public policy.

Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.

Rule One. You must know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets. An asset is something that puts money in my pocket. A liability is something that takes money out of my pocket.

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

When you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work.

If you are going to work hard anyway, you might as well get rich...and the quicker the better!

A vacation home is a wonderful 'extra' as you start building wealth. Remember, though, it's still basically a very large, very expensive toy.

Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefended. I send it to conquer and take currency prisoner and bring it back to me.

We have a responsibility to do better as black people in this country. I don't care how white people look at you - I care that we have a one-trillion-dollar spending base, and if you want to see change, you have to start to focus on, economically, how can we change our communities.

My guiding principle and motivation was that I wanted to retire by the time I turned 35. There actually are two books that I bought and still have - Paul Terhost's 'Cashing In On the American Dream: How to Retire at 35' and Andrew Tobias's 'The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need' - that were my personal financial road map.

We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.

Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich.

I still think, from an individual perspective, the best deal investment you can make is to buy a primary residence that you're the owner-occupier of.

Getting rich begins with the right mindset, the right words and the right plan.

Today, there's no excuse for not learning how to get our financial houses in order. Some of us close our eyes, take a deep breath and say a prayer when it comes to managing our finances.

Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.

If you are not financially independent by the time you are forty or fifty, it doesn't mean that you are living in the wrong country or at the wrong time. It simply means that you have the wrong plan.

I'm all about saving money.

Gotta get myself a million, gonna turn that into a billion.

I'm not a fool with my money. I've known what it's like to be poor and I don't splash it around stupidly.

Money can make money if you're intelligent about it and don't waste it the wrong way.

Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!