You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

There’s nothing – I’ve bought everything I want. I don’t like yachts or anything; you know, I’m not a yacht person, and I’ve got pretty much the nicest plane I’d want to have.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

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

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don’t understand.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

If you give, you will be blessed.

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn’t afford to pay attention.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn’t the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn’t have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I’d got now for an ‚adult‘ DW.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

A development deal is where they’re giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they’ll put an album out.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

When you give up yourself, that’s when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that’s giving that’s serving others and that’s when you feel fulfilled.

I absolutely believed when I was young because the Tooth Fairy was always good to me. The Tooth Fairy generally left me a dollar or two dollars and, as a kid, that was a lot of money.

Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle… and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable – those billionaire reports are a joke.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his ‚basic rights.‘

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

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that’s a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.

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

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

You can only choose between rich and poor. The middle class is gone.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

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

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don’t know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn’t have cash on him.

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.

In this industry, there’s a lot of cases of being a competitor in one way, but you’re often a customer and a vendor in another way. It’s not atypical in aerospace. Actually, it’s not that atypical in a lot of industries.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?