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

There is no wealth but life.

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

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

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

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

Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‚tap-dancing to work.‘

I don’t think I am evangelical in my work.

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.

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

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

Obama’s primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

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

Money ain’t everything.

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

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

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

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

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.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

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

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I’m in my work, I don’t notice where I am.

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

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

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

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.

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.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

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.

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.

We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means.

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.

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

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.

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

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

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.

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

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

Rappers aren’t the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone’s business to be super wealthy.

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.

People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.

If I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

He who is contented is rich.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

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