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.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

It’s the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change – as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

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

Gold is hoarded. It’s estimated that 95 percent of all gold ever mined is still around.

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

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

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.

The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.

I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

What I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

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

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

Money for me today does not really matter.

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.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

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.

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.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

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

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

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

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle… and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable – those billionaire reports are a joke.

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.

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don’t know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn’t have cash on him.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we’ve got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

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

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 it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.

I just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‚Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.‘ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.

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

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.

I’m filthy rich!

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.

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