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.

I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I’m not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

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

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

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

You can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

I have a self-defense mind. I’ve had it all my life.

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

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

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

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 don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

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 don’t think there’s any point going for second or third.

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.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

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

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

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.

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

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap – it is all in the mind.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Money ain’t everything.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

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.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything – which as you know, always leads to something – cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

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

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.