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

I am very concerned about the millions of baby boomers who are counting on the stock market to deliver them a safe, sound, long retirement. I am afraid the baby boomers who are counting on the stock market are in trouble.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

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

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

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

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

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.

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.

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

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.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

I think about food literally all day every day. It’s a thing.

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.

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

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.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

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.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

Remember that credit is money.

I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

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

When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was – my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.

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

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

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

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

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

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 the word rich is all relative.

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

Give me five minutes with a person’s checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.

When I was young, people lived from paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit card payment.

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

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

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.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character.