To become financially independent you must turn part of your income into capital; turn capital into enterprise; turn enterprise into profit; turn profit into investment; and turn investment into financial independence.
It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.
The accumulation of capital involves the expansion of value over time.
My mom's never owned anything. I always wanted her to own something that she could say, 'This is mine' and feel good about it.
My father gave me a very small loan in 1975, and I built it into a company that's worth many, many billions of dollars, with some of the greatest assets in the world, and I say that only because that's the kind of thinking that America needs.
Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend.
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
I do not sell life insurance. I sell money. I sell dollars for pennies apiece. My dollars cost 3 cents per dollar per year.
I bought quite a few houses and cars.
I've got four houses in my street. I live in two, and the others are empty. I'll buy more as they come up, because I think it would be great to have the entire street.
Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.
I was smart enough to save my money. I invest. The biggest thing you can invest is something they don't have a lot of, is land. I own a lot of it.
Men make more money but have lower net worths.
Savings will not make you rich. Only canny investments do that. The role of savings is to keep you from becoming poor.
The real key to wealth is the gradual accumulation, it's something Jesus talked about I call the law of use and you couple with the exponential curve.
Wants keep pace with wealth always.
Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options.
Wages, investments, and home values are the three legs of the economic stool for most Americans.
Don't wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and wait.
The Senate needs to leave enough money in the proposed budget to not only reduce all marginal rates, but to eliminate the death tax, so that people who build up assets are able to transfer them from one generation to the next, regardless of a person's race.
Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.
You don't build wealth with credit card rewards and airline miles. You can't beat the credit card companies at their own game.
I'm very happy right now without any property anywhere.
Most great fortunes are built slowly. They are based on the principle of compound interest, what Albert Einstein called, "The greatest power in the universe."
Home ownership is the cornerstone of the American dream.
