Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.

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.

If I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.

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

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

Affluence means influence.

Obama’s primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

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

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

I was mischievous. I wasn’t bad. I stole food so we could eat. My mother didn’t know. I used to tell her some man gave me $10 to sweep out the yard. I was like Robin Hood. I took from the rich and gave to the poor. Me.

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

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

Christ didn’t choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers – that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.

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.

Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn’t matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

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.

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.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

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.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

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

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

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history.

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

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Of course, I do everything for money.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

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

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.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Until we have comprehensive financial education, we’ll never see the end of our booms and busts.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

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

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses.

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

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

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.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

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.

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

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

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.

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.

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

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.