Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

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

The sinews of war are infinite money.

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 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.

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

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

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.

I’ve turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

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.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don’t need to imagine it. It’s called the United States of America.

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

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.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

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

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.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

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

I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Think and grow rich.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.

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.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

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

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

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

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

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.

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

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

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.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

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

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

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

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

For I can raise no money by vile means.