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

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

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

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

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

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

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.

Tourism provides employment to the poorest of the poor. Gram seller earns something, auto-rickshaw driver earns something, pakoda seller earns something, and tea seller also earns something.

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than 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.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel.

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

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

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

Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.

I’m looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

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 sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

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.

I could become very rich in Guatemala but by the low method of ratifying my title, opening a clinic, and specialising in allergies. To do that would be the most horrible betrayal of the two ‚I’s‘ struggling inside me: the socialist and the traveller.

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.

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

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

No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

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’m a working-class person, working with class.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

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

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

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.

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.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

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.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

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

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.