David Rubenstein Quotes

What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!

I got good advice once. Someone said to me: 'Live in your money rather than look at it.'

Understand and accept the cycles of money. The setbacks you may have today or next year will not keep you from financial freedom. If you hold on to your goals and dreams, you will get there.

It's easier for me to get three times the amount of money I really want.

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it's not about the money.

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

I am fortunate to have enough money not to have to worry about the necessities of life. Beyond that, I try to think about money as little as possible.

Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.

You've got to tell your money what to do or it will leave.

The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.

More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.

Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there's no ambition in having money in the bank for the sake of it!

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

If you make time each month to give your money some attention, you'll start the next year in fabulous financial shape.

Some folks can have all the money in the world, and still not know what to do with it.

It is what you can do with your money that matters because money has no value in itself.

Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.

Most people aren't honest with themselves about money.