No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

A person who can’t pay gets another person who can’t pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don’t make either of them able to do a walking-match.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

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.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

Money has a language of its own.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

We were poor, but we smiled.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

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

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That’s the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.

I’m filthy rich!

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

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

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

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

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.

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

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

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

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

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.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.

The biggest and most deadly ‚tax‘ rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits – food stamps, housing subsidies and the like – if their income goes up.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn’t have that kinda money to put out.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, ‚Don’t get comfortable, because we may not be here long.‘

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

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