He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

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

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

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I’ve got. Somebody’s got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain’t got this, somebody ain’t got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

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

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

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

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

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.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

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

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

I’m a bit like the Queen in that I don’t carry much cash.

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

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

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

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

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.

Remember that credit is money.

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.

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.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

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.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.

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

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.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

Time is money.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

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

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

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

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.

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

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

Money can’t buy life.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

I haven’t been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I’ve been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don’t blow money. I don’t have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I’ve already had that experience.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

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

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.