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

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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

America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

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

Being willing to donate the taxpayers‘ money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

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.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

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.

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

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

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

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

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

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

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.

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.

He who is contented is rich.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

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

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.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

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

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

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

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

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

If you are a professional player and you are playing in the top professional league, you are sorted financially, which is good.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

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

People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

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

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

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.

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.

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.

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

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.

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don’t know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn’t have cash on him.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

If I was a billionaire, I’d be smart with my money.

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

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.

The reason why I wear gold – I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it’s symbolic of my African heritage.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

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

Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

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.

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.