The lack of money is the root of all evil.

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

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making 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.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

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

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

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

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

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.

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.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

Remember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

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

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

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

It was the money from ‚Star Wars‘ and ‚Jaws‘ that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.

I think the word rich is all relative.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

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.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

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

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

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

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

I’m always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

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

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

Affluence means influence.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

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

I’m filthy rich!

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

Money for me today does not really matter.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

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

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