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

A great fortune is a great slavery.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

He who is contented is rich.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

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

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

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.

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.

If you’re worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it’s almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

I just don’t like mutual funds. I think they’re a rip-off.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

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.

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 haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

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.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

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

No one wants advice – only corroboration.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

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.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

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

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

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

Affluence means influence.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

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

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.

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

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.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

You make more money if you’re generous.

It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

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.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

This 90/10 rule holds true in almost anything financial. Take the game of golf, for example. Ten percent of the professional golfers make 90 percent of the money.

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

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

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

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

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