“Goals work. Pick one debt, and then put every dime into paying down that one debt. Once that debt is paid off, start paying down the next debt. Pretty soon it’s time to move from paying debt to building savings.”

Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense.

I don’t want to overstate the gender difference. But women are more sensitized to the way that larger issues affect their pocketbooks, like pay equality or cost of living changes.

I want to be blunt: We should not be fighting about equal pay for equal work, and access to birth control, in 2012. These issues were resolved years ago – until the Republicans brought them back.

The people on Wall Street broke this country, and they did it one lousy mortgage at a time. It happened more than three years ago, and there has been no real accountability, and there has been no real effort to fix it.

Money is bounded; we only have so much of it. Love goes on forever.

The credit card companies have put the loan sharks out of business.

I don’t like credit cards. They make overspending very easy. They can make life a lot more complex and stressful.

Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along.

I’m proud of my Native American heritage.

Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born.

When conservatives talk about opportunity, they mean opportunities for the rich to get richer, for the powerful to get more powerful.

I hear all this, you know, ‘Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.’ No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own – nobody.

If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu.

Donald Trump doesn’t care who gets hurt, as long as he makes a profit off it.

My mother said, if you don’t have the cash, don’t buy it. And on that, my mother was right.

It’s powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.

The major fortunes in America have been made in land.

To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday’s hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can’t build a monument to past problems and fail forward.

It is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others.

Love’s very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.

Whores don’t live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don’t build nests on a tree that doesn’t bear fruits.

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.