A fool and his money are soon elected.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

Money does not change people, people change.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.

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.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

I don’t care about money.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‚elephant‘.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

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

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

There was a time when people said, ‚Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.‘ Now they just say, ‚Pay him!‘

We are often attracted to the wrong things, whether it be money, fame, or approval.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

Get off your horse and drink your milk.

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.

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.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

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

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, ‚Is that a $20 million take?‘ That kind of thing, and being self-critical.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

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.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

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.

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

I’ve never been that much of a money guy. I’m more of a film guy, and most of the money I’ve made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

I don’t like begging money from producers.

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.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

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

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

An unemployed court jester is nobody’s fool.

Money often costs too much.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.