I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.

Money is like an arm or leg – use it or lose it.

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.

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

Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

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

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

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

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

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

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

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.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

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

Our lifestyle was not in any way a negative. That was not the problem. That is and will remain one of the wonderful opportunities we are able to give our children.

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.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

I don’t like drinking, basically.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

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.

I’m a cash flow guy. If it doesn’t make me money today, forget about it.

You make more money if you’re generous.

I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.

We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.

I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

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

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We’ll break out of it. It takes time.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

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

If McLaren give me a car, that’s fine, but I don’t tend to buy fancy stuff anyway or super-nice clothes.

Well, yeah, people are working in our country. You know what? They’re working two and three jobs, and in our America, people should not have to work more than one job to be able to put food on the table and have a roof over their head.

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.

Sometimes you have the trends that’s not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don’t really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It’s really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

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

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

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.