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

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

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

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

People forget… that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that’s what happened.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

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

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

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.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

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

The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn’t the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn’t have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I’d got now for an ‚adult‘ DW.

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, ‚Is that a $20 million take?‘ That kind of thing, and being self-critical.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

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.

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

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

Think and grow rich.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

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

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

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

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

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

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

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

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

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

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

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

Christ didn’t choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers – that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.

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

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

I can analyze people’s intentions. Immediately. That’s just a warning. To everyone.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

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.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

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

The reason why I wear gold – I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it’s symbolic of my African heritage.

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.

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 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.