Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

It’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

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

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

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

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. It’s been printed all over, so I don’t feel like I am hiding anything.

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

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

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

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

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

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’m attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn’t that what attracts anyone?

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

Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?

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

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.

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

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

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

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.

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

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

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.

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

You know what, I’m very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I’m just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

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

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

I don’t care about money.

I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

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

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 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.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

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.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‚Too much of a good thing can be wonderful‘.

I’ve never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

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

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.