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

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

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.

Remember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.

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

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

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.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing – stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses – makes more money for me than making movies.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.

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.

The reason why I wear gold – I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it’s symbolic of my African heritage.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

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.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

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

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.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

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.

Money has a language of its own.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

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

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

Rascals are always sociable, more’s the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others‘ company.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

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

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

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.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.

‚Credit‘ is another word for trustworthiness.

The sinews of war are infinite money.