Robert G. Allen Quotes

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.

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

You have to move from just working for money to a world where money works for you.

I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man.

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

My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.

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

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.

Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it.

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.

The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.

No, I'm not wealthy.

He that is rich is wise.

Anybody with a reasonable income can become financially independent in a lifetime.

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

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

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.

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

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

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.

I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'

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

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

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.