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

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

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

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

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

I absolutely believed when I was young because the Tooth Fairy was always good to me. The Tooth Fairy generally left me a dollar or two dollars and, as a kid, that was a lot of money.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

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

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

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.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

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

I just think people should invest in the world. Don’t invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

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.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

During the Enron debacle, it was workers who took the pounding, not bankers. Not only did Enron employees lose their jobs, many lost their retirement savings. That’s because they were at the bottom of the investing food chain.

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

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.

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

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

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

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.

Money has a language of its own.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

If you must invest in paper, learn to be an options trader. Then you will know how to make money whether the markets are going up or down.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

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

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

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.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.