Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

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 desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn’t necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

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

Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

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.

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.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

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.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

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

Deflation isn’t good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

If you are a professional player and you are playing in the top professional league, you are sorted financially, which is good.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

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

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

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

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

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

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

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

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 never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

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

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

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

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.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

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.

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.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

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

Money ain’t everything.

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

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.

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

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I’ve always felt blessed.