Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

There may be less of a chance of losing all the money you put into a mutual fund than there is of losing all the money you put into lottery tickets, but you’re never going to win big in a mutual fund.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

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

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

From the late 1940s, into and through the ’50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

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

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

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

During the Enron debacle, it was workers who took the pounding, not bankers. Not only did Enron employees lose their jobs, many lost their retirement savings. That’s because they were at the bottom of the investing food chain.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

I’m filthy rich!

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.

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.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

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.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

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.

Africa will thrive.

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.

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.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

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

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

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

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

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.

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

I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world… If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

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

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon’s unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

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

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.

My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

Gold is hoarded. It’s estimated that 95 percent of all gold ever mined is still around.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

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