I could become very rich in Guatemala but by the low method of ratifying my title, opening a clinic, and specialising in allergies. To do that would be the most horrible betrayal of the two ‚I’s‘ struggling inside me: the socialist and the traveller.

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 think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

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

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

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

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.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

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

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

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

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

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

Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.

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.

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

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

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

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

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

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.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

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

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

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

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

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

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

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.