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.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

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.

Think and grow rich.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

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.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

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

Every artist was first an amateur.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

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

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

The future is purchased by the present.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

I’ve turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

I’m going to retain a lot of Microsoft’s stock.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

Of course, I do everything for money.

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

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.

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

You make more money if you’re generous.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

What I’m hoping is that every album I’m going to do will give my audience something different, and that they’ll grow as I do.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Children always turn to the light.

I don’t like begging money from producers.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

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

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

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Selling out is doing something you don’t really want to do for money. That’s what selling out is.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

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

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

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.

No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.