Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‚Too much of a good thing can be wonderful‘.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

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.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

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

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.

If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don’t buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.

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

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

I don’t feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don’t have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you’ve got the money to be able to afford it, then it’s really good to buy something from me, but don’t buy too much.

Money is like an arm or leg – use it or lose it.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Many gold and silver experts will recommend you buy numismatic coins – rare and old coins. If you are not a rare coin expert, I’d encourage you to stay away from them. New investors often pay too much for rare coins that are not really rare.

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can’t walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

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

Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

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.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

Remember that credit is money.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

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

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway.

If we didn’t have the Chinese buying things, we’d be on the floor.

What I’m always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

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.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

If you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

Material things are delightful, but they’re not important.

It’s no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.