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.

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.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

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.

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

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

It 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.

Think and grow rich.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

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.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

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

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

The reason why I wear gold – I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it’s symbolic of my African heritage.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

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

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.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

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

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

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

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.

Fortunately 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.

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

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

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

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.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

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

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

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

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

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

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.

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

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

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

In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

The world has not yet reached the point which, in my view, is an essential condition for the survival of our human species: access by all the peoples to the material resources of this planet.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

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.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

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

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

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

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

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

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

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

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.