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

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

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.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.

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.

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.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers‘ money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

Money has a language of its own.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

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

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

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

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

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

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

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

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

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

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.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

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’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

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

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

Some people are jerks, and some people aren’t.

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.

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.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

It’s vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

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

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

If I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.