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.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

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.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

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

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

Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

The protestor I think will speak up for the world’s poorest.

Money doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

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

There is no wealth but life.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

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.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

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

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Money ain’t everything.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

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

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

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.

Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

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.

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

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

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn’t even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.

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

If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.