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.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

There is no wealth but life.

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

You make more money if you’re generous.

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

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

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

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

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

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.

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.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

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

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

He who is contented is rich.

Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.

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.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

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

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

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.

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

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.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Think and grow rich.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

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

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.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

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.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

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.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

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.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

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.

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

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.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

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

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.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

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

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

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.

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

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

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

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