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

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

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.

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it’s humorous, all the attention to it, because it’s hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that’s happened to me.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Selling out is doing something you don’t really want to do for money. That’s what selling out is.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

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

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

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

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.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

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.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

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

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

It was the money from ‚Star Wars‘ and ‚Jaws‘ that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.

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

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

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

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

If I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

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

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

The bottom line on the Hyde Amendment is that it is directly, in effect, targeting poor women and women who don’t have money.

We have the best government that money can buy.

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

Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

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.

Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn’t the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn’t have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I’d got now for an ‚adult‘ DW.

I’m going to retain a lot of Microsoft’s stock.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

Money has a language of its own.

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

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

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

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.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

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.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

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

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