If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

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.

Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the ‚intrinsic value‘ of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.

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

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

If you’re worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it’s almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.

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.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.

Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

I don’t like begging money from producers.

Remember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don’t buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

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

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

The IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

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.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.

In the simplest terms, inflation occurs when there’s too much money in the system. On the flip side, deflation occurs when there are too few dollars in circulation.

A financial institution has the task of taking risks, and if it’s a well run institution – say, Goldman Sachs – it tries to cover the potential losses to itself, but only to itself.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

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

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

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.

Of 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.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

I just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‚Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.‘ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.

Money has a language of its own.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

You make more money if you’re generous.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

I’m looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

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

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.