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

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

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

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

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

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.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

I don’t care about money.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.

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

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

At my lowest point, I was nearly $700,000 in debt.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

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.

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 spend my money on my props and my creations. I’m an inventor.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

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.

We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.

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

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.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

It’s vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.

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

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

We’ve all heard stories of lottery winners, rock stars, heirs and heiresses, and professional athletes becoming millionaire morons who wake up rich but are broke by nightfall.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

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 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.

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.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.

No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

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

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.

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

I absolutely believed when I was young because the Tooth Fairy was always good to me. The Tooth Fairy generally left me a dollar or two dollars and, as a kid, that was a lot of money.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

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.

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.