For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

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

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

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

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

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

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

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

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.

I’m a workin‘ girl.

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

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

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.

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

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

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.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it’s so essential that when I’m involved in the actual process, my so-called ‚real life‘ becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.

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

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

I’m no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.

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

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

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

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.

People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.