“A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.”
Money is a tool, but most of us have a more complicated relationship with it than that. These quotes cover saving, spending, investing, debt, and the surprisingly emotional decisions we make about something that is supposed to be rational.
“Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.”
“A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.”
“Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.”
“I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.”
“I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.”
“Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.”
“Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.”
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
“Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.”
“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
“Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.”
“I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.”
“The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.”
“The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.”
“Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.”
“I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.”