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

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

If I was a billionaire, I’d be smart with my money.

Give me five minutes with a person’s checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it’s possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

I made lots of mistakes – the number one mistake being trusting other people with my money.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Money can’t buy life.

Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

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

I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

In the simplest terms, inflation occurs when there’s too much money in the system. On the flip side, deflation occurs when there are too few dollars in circulation.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

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.

The rise in the price of gold is a sign that capitalism has stumbled.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

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

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

The rich continue to get rich the same way they always have – by understanding how money works and making their money work for them.

Time is money.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

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

I’m looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

Every dollar I made from DJing, I put into my videos, promotion – everything.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What’s happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It’s going to make the situation worse.

Percentage margins don’t matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it’s going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you’ll never see it.

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. ‚Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that’s mass production.

Millions of Americans and people around the world, especially young people who face intense financial challenges today, haven’t been taught how to take control of their financial future.

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.

Washington isn’t a city, it’s an abstraction.

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

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life… it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

I just think that – when a country needs more income and we do, we’re only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that – that – when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.

What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending – that’s the whole point! Seriously.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

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?

The real minimum wage is zero.

A financial institution has the task of taking risks, and if it’s a well run institution – say, Goldman Sachs – it tries to cover the potential losses to itself, but only to itself.

I shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

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

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

Working hard to earn more money and then giving it away in higher taxes isn’t financially intelligent, even if you do put some of it into a retirement account.

We’ve all heard stories of lottery winners, rock stars, heirs and heiresses, and professional athletes becoming millionaire morons who wake up rich but are broke by nightfall.