Whatever your income, always live below your means.

Wealth is more often the result of a lifestyle of hard work, perseverance, planning, and, most of all, self-discipline.

Good health, longevity, happiness, a loving family, self-reliance, fine friends … if you [have] five, you’re a rich man….

Money should never change one’s values…. Making money is only a report card. It’s a way to tell how you’re doing.

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

One of the reasons that millionaires are economically successful is that they think differently.

Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend.

It’s easier to accumulate wealth if you don’t live in a high-status neighborhood.

Multiply your age times your realized pretax annual household income from all sources except inheritances. Divide by ten. This, less any inherited wealth, is what your net worth should be.

If you want to catch a cold, hang out with sick people. If you want to lose, associate with losers. But if you want to become successful, go out of your way to associate with successful people.

Operate your household like a productive business.

We are the thoughts we choose to keep.

Hold tight to what is most yourself, Don't squander it, don't let your lifeBe governed by what disturbs you.

No religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.

The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.

As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward.

I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking about anything else is just the pleasurable byproduct of wow.

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.