Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

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.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

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

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.

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

I’m always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.

Value is what you get.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

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

The reason why I wear gold – I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it’s symbolic of my African heritage.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

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

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

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

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

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.

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

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

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

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

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I’m not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.

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

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

I don’t care about money.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

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.

For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

What I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

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

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.

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.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.