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

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Physical 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.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.

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

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

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

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

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

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.

I said I would never wear my gold again because it would be insensitive and disrespectful to all the people who died and lost everything in Katrina.

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.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

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

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin‘ wealthy.

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.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

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

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

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.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

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

What we live by we die by.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

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.

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

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

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

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

It 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.

I’m the greatest thing that ever lived! I’m the king of the world! I’m a bad man. I’m the prettiest thing that ever lived.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

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.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Money’s important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don’t have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

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.

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.

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

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

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.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

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

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.