N. Murray Edwards Quotes

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.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.

A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.

I don't really invest too much in the future.

The time to save for the future is now. Thanks to compounding interest, the earlier you start putting money away for the future, the more you will save.

I have a personal prosperity plan. I know where my money goes, and how I can spend it more fruitfully. A prosperity plan is something fluid that may alter month to month.

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.

I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.

Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.

I try to stay ahead of things, if you know what I mean. I take the money I make and reinvest it.

Some studies show that women can be better money managers than men because they tend to be more conservative and do their homework. Men tend to take more risks without the research.

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.

Youth should be a savings bank.

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

Growing up, I didn't know anything about money other than we didn't have any.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.

If you stop at general math, you're only going to make general math money.

The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over 'The Wall Street Journal' or the 'Financial Times' and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.

Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.