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

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

Percentage margins don’t matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

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

Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 – Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

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

It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

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.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

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

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

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

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

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

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

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

I just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‚Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.‘ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

There is no wealth but life.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

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

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

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

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

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

He who is contented is rich.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

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

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

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

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.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

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. It’s been printed all over, so I don’t feel like I am hiding anything.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.

I’ve never been that much of a money guy. I’m more of a film guy, and most of the money I’ve made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

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.

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.

The IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.