H. L. Mencken Quotes

I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.

That's why I be so careful with my money and always try to invest. I see people who have it all and then lose it.

Making the first million is hard; making the next 100 million is easy.

To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.

People should have an escape valve for their money, their assets. If you have substantial financial assets, the government is going to confiscate the purchasing power of those assets and spend it.

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

When people are worried about the future, they don't take trips to Hawaii.

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

If you have millions of dollars you are not going to get to continue doing what you want. You are into a world of commitment to that money and all the people that helped you get that money.

I oughta be rich. But, you know, if you don't spend all your time looking after money, somebody else will. The guys who look after money, they're the ones who get the money.

My firm has 25,000 high-net-worth clients. A typical account would be that of a couple aged 65 and 60 who need their money to last the rest of their lives, 25 to 35 years.

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

I'm not a millionaire. I have a high earning power, but I never did have any capital.

What I say is, 'If you're so rich, how come you're so dumb?'

I don't want to outlive my money.

I made my first million by the time I was 31 and promptly lost it when I got divorced.

People like comfort; that's natural. But as for making money simply for the sake of making it, and giving yourself far more trouble and anxiety to gain it than you can ever get pleasure from it when it's gained, why, as for me, I'd rather sit still and cross my arms.

Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.

Money talks, and when it starts to say goodbye, humans listen and act accordingly.

People die millionaires. All your life, you're gonna stress money?

As a first-generation inheritor, the first mandate is to preserve our family wealth and hopefully increase it.

When I started going to business school, I started getting calls from my peers asking for my help. I thought, 'Well, there are a lot of people like me who make a bunch of money and just get so scared of it and don't know what to do with it.' I just didn't want to be 60 years old and broke.

Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.

The foundation stone of wealth accumulation is defense, and this defense should be anchored by budgeting and planning.