He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaHuman 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.
Anne FrankIf a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. KennedyWar 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.
James MadisonTo 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.
Muhammad AliWe 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.
Fyodor DostoevskyWe’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
Bill GatesI 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.
Kendrick LamarWealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.
H. L. MenckenThe 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.
Robert GreeneWealthy 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.
Ayrton SennaI’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?
Alice WalkerIn 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.
Thomas CarlyleBeing willing to donate the taxpayers‘ money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.
Thomas SowellMoney has a language of its own.
Robert KiyosakiGod 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.
Muhammad AliO 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.
ChanakyaDo you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
John D. RockefellerRight 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.
Woody AllenI’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.
Ray BradburyThe sinews of war are infinite money.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonOne must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
George EliotMoney is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
Benjamin FranklinThere have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.
William ShakespeareNo one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne FrankContent makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
Benjamin FranklinA gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.
Dolly PartonHe is now rising from affluence to poverty.
Mark TwainIf the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
Edmund BurkeIn the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.
Robert KiyosakiHussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.
Madeleine AlbrightWealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
EpictetusIt is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
John D. RockefellerI 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.
Joel OsteenThe money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
Noam ChomskyI like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
Jane GoodallIt is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Mahatma GandhiI 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.
Fidel CastroMoney and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
Will RogersHappiness 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.
Robert Baden-PowellThere’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.
Huey NewtonBritain 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.
Noam ChomskyAs a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.
Robert KiyosakiBoth oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
AristotlePeople 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.
PlatoWars are caused by undefended wealth.
Ernest HemingwaySome people are jerks, and some people aren’t.
Kevin HartLet 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.
Mother TeresaActually, 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.
Kurt VonnegutI 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.
Joe BidenIt’s vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.
Gordon RamsayDeeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
Helen KellerTo have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
Henry David ThoreauWe are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerIt’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.
Steve JobsIf I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.
Maya AngelouThis 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.
Abraham Lincoln