“No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon.”

Debt is normal. Be weird.

You will only sacrifice when you passionately believe in the outcome.

There’s a great place to go when you’re broke–to work!

Money is not good or evil. It has no morals or intentions on its own. Money reflects the character of the user.

After losing everything, I went on a quest to find out how money really works, how I could get control of it, and how I could have confidence in handling it.

A good financial planner is going to do more than pick your funds.

Broke people giving financial advice is like a shop teacher with missing fingers.

The decision to go into debt alters the course and condition of your life. You no longer own it. You are owned.

Gratitude is really, really attractive. A child who is genuinely grateful makes you want to do anything for her, and that is true of adults as well.

The average millionaire can’t tell you who got thrown off the island last night.

Goals are visions and dreams with work clothes on.

Where you are today is the sum of every choice you’ve ever made. If you don’t like where you are, start making different choices!

The world will try to tell you that you need stuff to be somebody. Don’t listen.

When you create a basic budget and stick to it, it will suddenly seem like you have more money.

You’ve got to tell your money what to do or it will leave.

If you help enough people, you don’t have to worry about money.

Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work.

The Constitution is a radical document, it is the job of the government to rein in people’s rights.

Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.

You can’t say you love your country and hate your government.

That the policies – from energy to labor policies, trade policies, government policies relating to debt and deficits are all aligning in such a way that America, far from being one of the places people are running from, is a place people are going to come to and add jobs.

Sarah, there’s a government inside the government, and I don’t control it.

Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.

The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.