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

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

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it’s made by Warren Buffett.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

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

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

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

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

I just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‚Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.‘ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

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

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

I’m going to retain a lot of Microsoft’s stock.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

Money ain’t everything.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

I’ve turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

Affluence means influence.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

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

Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle… and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable – those billionaire reports are a joke.

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

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

I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

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.

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, ‚Is that a $20 million take?‘ That kind of thing, and being self-critical.

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

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

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

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.

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

There is no wealth but life.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

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.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

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

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

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

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.