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

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.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

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

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.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

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.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

It was the money from ‚Star Wars‘ and ‚Jaws‘ that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.

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

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.

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

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

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can’t really understand why it doesn’t obsess everyone – I think it does really, I’m just a little more out about it.

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

What I invest in, while not risky for me, may be too risky for most people.

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.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

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

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

Money for me today does not really matter.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We’ll break out of it. It takes time.

Remember that credit is money.

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 – Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

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

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.

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

Rappers aren’t the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone’s business to be super wealthy.

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.

No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

We have the best government that money can buy.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

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

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.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

I think everybody has something that they’ve been obsessed about in their lifetime.

Money ain’t everything.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

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.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Money often costs too much.

Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.