“Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”

“Having money is a way of being free of money.”

“Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.” 

Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.

I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

“Misconceptions of business are almost inevitable in a society where most people have neither studied nor run businesses. In a society where most people are employees and consumers, it is easy to think of businesses as “them” – as impersonal organizations, whose internal operations are largely unknown and whose sums of money may sometimes be so huge as to be unfathomable.” 

“The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.” 

“If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.” 

“The lack of money is the root of all evil.”

Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.

Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep.

The first thing you realize when you make a bunch of money is that you’re still the same person.

I learned how to make money because it was a necessity. After it stopped being a necessity, I stopped caring about it.

You retire by saving up enough money, becoming a monk, or by finding work that feels like play to you.

You can spend your life however you want, but if you want to get rich, it has to be your number one overwhelming desire.

Set and enforce an aspirational hourly rate. If fixing a problem will save less than your rate, ignore it. If outsourcing a task will cost less than your rate, outsource it. Get comfortable disappointing people whose expectations will eat your life up, one hour at a time.

There are no get-rich-quick schemes. That’s just somebody else trying to get rich off of you.

In almost any salaried job, even at one that’s paying a lot per hour like a lawyer, or a doctor, you’re still putting in the hours, and every hour you get paid. So, what that means is when you’re sleeping, you’re not earning. When you’re retired, you’re not earning. When you’re on vacation, you’re not earning. And you can’t earn non-linearly.

The ultimate purpose of money is so that you do not have to be in a specific place at a specific time doing anything you don’t want to do.

By the time people realize that they have enough money, they’ve lost their time and their health.

You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get. At scale.

Specific knowledge can be taught through apprenticeships or self-taught. It’s high paying because society has not yet figured out how to teach or automate it. It tends to be creative or technical.

Arm yourself with specific knowledge, accountability, and leverage. Specific knowledge is knowledge that you cannot be trained for. If society can train you, it can train someone else, and replace you.