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

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

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

Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

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

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

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.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

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.

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

I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn’t have that kinda money to put out.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

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

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

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

In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.

If I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.

I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one’s best physical features.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

You’d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

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

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

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.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

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

Tourism provides employment to the poorest of the poor. Gram seller earns something, auto-rickshaw driver earns something, pakoda seller earns something, and tea seller also earns something.

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

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That’s the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

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.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

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.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

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

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

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

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.

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

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

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

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.

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