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

Folks, you’re the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

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

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

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

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

I’m a real estate guy.

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

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

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.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

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

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

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don’t buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

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

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

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

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

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

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.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

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.

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

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

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.

I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

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

We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

The term ‚globalisation‘ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

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.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.