The lack of money is the root of all evil.

In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

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

A great fortune is a great slavery.

What I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it’s humorous, all the attention to it, because it’s hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that’s happened to me.

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.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

Who, being loved, is poor?

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

Money ain’t everything.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Money has a language of its own.

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil… prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.

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.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

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.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn’t afford to pay attention.

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.

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

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

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

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

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

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

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.

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

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

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.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

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

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.

We were poor, but we smiled.

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

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

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.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

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

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.