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

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

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

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

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

In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer’s dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.

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

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

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

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

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

If I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.

You make more money if you’re generous.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Think and grow rich.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Money ain’t everything.

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

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

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

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

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.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I’m in my work, I don’t notice where I am.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

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

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

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

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.

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

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

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

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

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

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

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

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

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.

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

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

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.