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

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.

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.

Work-get paid; don’t work-don’t get paid. Everybody is on commission.

Making mistakes and learning from them is crucial to winning.

We live in a culture full of hares; but the tortoise always wins.

Fear is the enemy of hope.

Contentment may be the most powerful Financial Principle. You can give more, avoid debt, and live better.

When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.

My son looks more like George Harrison than I do.

The difference between Namath and me is that when you make the money he makes, they say you’re ruggedly handsome. When you make the money I make, they say you have a big nose. (On resembling Joe Namath)

Guys are stimulated easily. They are easy to manipulate. All you have to do is wear a sexy outfit.

Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.

Whether you’re a man or not comes from your heart, not how much hair you have on your head.

So far I’ve been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?

Sometimes, I must admit, I’d like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn’t look right. I’d like to play for another 20 years, but I don’t know. I just can’t see it happening. I don’t know why. It’s a certain foreboding. A funny feeling. Vultures.