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.

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

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

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

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

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.

I think the word rich is all relative.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

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

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

I don’t want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don’t.

A lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

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

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.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

I do a little thing about the way people shake the sweetener packet. You know, like they’re all excited. I want to get all the granules down to one end. I love all these rituals.

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

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers‘ money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

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

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

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

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Money for me today does not really matter.

I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.

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

A man’s character is his fate.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

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.

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.

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

This is not a showman’s job. I will not step out of character.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

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

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

It’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.