This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin‘ wealthy.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

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.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

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

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

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.

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

I don’t want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

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

We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

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.

I think when you spread the wealth around it’s good for everybody.

He who is contented is rich.

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

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

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

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

I’m filthy rich!

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.

Money ain’t everything.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.