The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.

Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.

We can’t get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can’t just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

A financial institution has the task of taking risks, and if it’s a well run institution – say, Goldman Sachs – it tries to cover the potential losses to itself, but only to itself.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

If I have cash and I can’t figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

Time is money.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

He that’s secure is not safe.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

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.

I think the word rich is all relative.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Money ain’t everything.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

What I invest in, while not risky for me, may be too risky for most people.

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

Remember that credit is money.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

Gold is hoarded. It’s estimated that 95 percent of all gold ever mined is still around.