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.

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

There is no wealth but life.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

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

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

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

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.

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

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

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.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

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

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.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

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

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

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

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

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

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

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.

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.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

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

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

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

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.

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

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

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.

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.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

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

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

From 1945 to 1974, the Western world – including America – was more socialistic than capitalistic, more pro-labor than pro-business.

Money has a language of its own.

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

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

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

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.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 – Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.