For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.

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.

I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.

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

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.

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

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

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

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

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.

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

Work alone is noble.

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

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

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

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

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

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

Money has a language of its own.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

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

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.

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.

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 you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

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

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

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.

Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.

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.

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.

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

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

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

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.

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

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

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

Of course, I do everything for money.

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

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

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

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

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

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

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

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

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.