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 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.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

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.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

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

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.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

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

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.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

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.

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

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

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.

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

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

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.

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

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.

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.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

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.

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

Money’s important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don’t have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

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

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.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

I just think that – when a country needs more income and we do, we’re only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that – that – when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

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.

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

Affluence means influence.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

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

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

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.

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

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.

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

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

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.

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.

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

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

Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

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

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

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

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.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.