Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
Francis BaconWe 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.
Franklin D. RooseveltMoney doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.
Keanu ReevesIn a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
ConfuciusDon’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.
Bob DylanDerivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
Warren BuffettRemember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.
Robert KiyosakiNo one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
Charles SpurgeonI shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.
Adam SandlerI don’t want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.
Kobe BryantHappiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.
Robert Baden-PowellLet me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
Samuel JohnsonFinancial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.
Robert KiyosakiIf you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.
Robert KiyosakiOf the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
Warren BuffettIt is better to live rich than to die rich.
Samuel JohnsonWide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
Warren BuffettWrestling is intimate. You can reach out and touch the wrestlers.
Dwayne JohnsonThere is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
Andrew CarnegieWhen I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was – my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.
Matthew McConaugheyWho is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
Babe RuthSatan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
Alexander PopeI 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.
Douglas AdamsGod 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.
Muhammad AliAgriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
Samuel JohnsonTo be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonHuman greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
Anne FrankMany people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 – Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
Karl LagerfeldGet place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.
Alexander PopeThere 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.
Mother TeresaMost 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.
Richard BransonIf I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.
Bill GatesIt put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
Mark TwainYou make more money if you’re generous.
Robert KiyosakiThere are people who have money and people who are rich.
Coco ChanelMy dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn’t believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.
Clint EastwoodOne must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
George EliotPhysical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.
Dalai LamaNo advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
George OrwellGenerous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.
Robert KiyosakiThat man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David ThoreauA man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere have been so many great players that I’ve played with, that I’ve played against over the years.
Tom BradyI just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.
J. K. RowlingPricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.
Robert KiyosakiI’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.
Henny YoungmanIt is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Franklin D. RooseveltPoverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhen it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
VoltaireIt would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.
Abraham LincolnMoney has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
Bill GatesI try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.
EminemSome people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Coco ChanelWorking hard to earn more money and then giving it away in higher taxes isn’t financially intelligent, even if you do put some of it into a retirement account.
Robert KiyosakiWhat Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
George Bernard ShawAs a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.
Robert KiyosakiMoney is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody AllenBlack people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ‚cause it’s life or death for real.
Nipsey HussleWall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
Warren Buffett