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.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

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.

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.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

Of course, I do everything for money.

The term ‚globalisation‘ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

If I was a billionaire, I’d be smart with my money.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

I could become very rich in Guatemala but by the low method of ratifying my title, opening a clinic, and specialising in allergies. To do that would be the most horrible betrayal of the two ‚I’s‘ struggling inside me: the socialist and the traveller.

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

I’m filthy rich!

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

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

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

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

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

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

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.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.

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

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

There is no wealth but life.

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

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.

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.

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

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

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

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

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

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

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

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.