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

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

There was a point where I really felt I had ‚penniless divorcee lone parent‘ tattooed on my head.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

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.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

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.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

The term ‚globalisation‘ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

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 surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

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

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

He who is contented is rich.

It’s the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change – as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

We were poor, but we smiled.

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

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

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

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

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

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

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 world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

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.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

Of course, I do everything for money.

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

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

Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.