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.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

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

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

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.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

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

Great and good are seldom the same man.

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.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

The reason why I wear gold – I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it’s symbolic of my African heritage.

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.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

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.

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

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.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

I’ve turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat – no matter who killed the meat for him.

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.

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.

Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn’t the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn’t have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I’d got now for an ‚adult‘ DW.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn’t have to write for my living.

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

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, ‚Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,‘ and that is true. Everything I’ve accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

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.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

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

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

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.