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

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was 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.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

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

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

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

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

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.

Affluence means influence.

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

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.

People from North India are generally known to be aggressive and emotional.

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

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

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

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

I absolutely believed when I was young because the Tooth Fairy was always good to me. The Tooth Fairy generally left me a dollar or two dollars and, as a kid, that was a lot of money.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

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.

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses.

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.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

Of course, I do everything for money.

I could become very rich in Guatemala but by the low method of ratifying my title, opening a clinic, and specialising in allergies. To do that would be the most horrible betrayal of the two ‚I’s‘ struggling inside me: the socialist and the traveller.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

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

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

I don’t like begging money from producers.

People love conspiracy theories.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

Obama’s primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

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.

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

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

Money’s important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don’t have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.

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 sinews of war are infinite money.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I’m not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.

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

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

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 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.