Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Obama’s primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

‚Credit‘ is another word for trustworthiness.

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.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

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.

You know people talk about federal money as if it falls from heaven. You know we thank heaven for it, but it came out of people’s pockets – and I’ve driven all over Washington, D.C., I cannot find the money tree.

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.

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

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

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.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

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

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

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

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.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Gold is hoarded. It’s estimated that 95 percent of all gold ever mined is still around.

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

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

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

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

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

A great fortune is a great slavery.

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

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Of course, I do everything for money.

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.

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

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it’s made by Warren Buffett.

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

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

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

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.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

This 90/10 rule holds true in almost anything financial. Take the game of golf, for example. Ten percent of the professional golfers make 90 percent of the money.

I could become very rich in Guatemala but by the low method of ratifying my title, opening a clinic, and specialising in allergies. To do that would be the most horrible betrayal of the two ‚I’s‘ struggling inside me: the socialist and the traveller.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

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.

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

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

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

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

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.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

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

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.

I don’t like begging money from producers.