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.

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

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

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

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.

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.

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

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

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

Think and grow rich.

I’m filthy rich!

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.

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

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

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.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

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

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.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

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

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

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

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.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

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.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

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

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

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

By curious accident of history and geography, the world’s major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They’re a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf.

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.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

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.

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

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

I think the word rich is all relative.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

There is no wealth but life.

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.