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

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

I’m filthy rich!

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

‚Credit‘ is another word for trustworthiness.

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.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

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

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

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

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

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.

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.

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

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

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.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

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

For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.

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

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.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

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.

We have the best government that money can buy.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

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

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

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

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

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.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

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.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

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

The protestor I think will speak up for the world’s poorest.

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

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

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

Rappers aren’t the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone’s business to be super wealthy.

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.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.