Warren Buffett Quotes

If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.

When you are young and impecunious, society conditions you to exchange time for money, and this is quite as it should be. Very few people are hurt by having to work for a living. But as you become more affluent, it somehow is very, very difficult to reverse that process and begin trading money for time.

Let's face it, we're not about to earn our way to wealth. That's a mistake millions of Americans make. We think that if we work harder, smarter, longer, we'll achieve our financial dreams, but our paycheck alone-no matter how big-isn't the answer.

You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses.

I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?

Go where the money is... and go there often.

To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.

Nothing wrong with making money.

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

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

I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.

I'm not really interested in making money.

I'm a wealth creator. I'm not interested in saving in the least. While I do spend a lot, I don't spend money like other billionaires. I'm probably quite unusual, albeit I do have some of the significant trappings. But I always try to make my assets work for a living.

The rich don't work for money - the rich invent money.

If you want to retire young and retire rich, it is very important that your money be like a bird dog, going out every day and bringing home more and more assets.

The moment you make passive income and portfolio income a part of your life, your life will change. Those words will become flesh.

If you work for money, you give the power to your employer. If your money works for you, you keep and control the power.

People who work hard for their money cannot be placed in a worse position that those who allow their money to work for them.

When you go to bed tonight, ask yourself 'What percentage of my day did I spend creating residual income?' If the answer is ZERO, you're in trouble.

I want to be a millionaire, and I don't ever want a real job.

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.

Often, the more money you make the more money you spend; that's why more money doesn't make you rich - assets make you rich.