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.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

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

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

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.

Money does not change people, people change.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

Money for me today does not really matter.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Fear is real, but so is love.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

What I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

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 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.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

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.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

One day a guy tried to rob me on the street, and I had no money. So I charged him.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

I wasn’t sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

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

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle… and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable – those billionaire reports are a joke.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

If we say it long enough eventually we’re going to reap a harvest. We’re going to get exactly what we’re saying.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

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.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.