This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

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.

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.

Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

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

We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

There is no wealth but life.

When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 – Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

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.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

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

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

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

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

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

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

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.

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

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.

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.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Wealthy 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

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

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

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

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

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

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

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.

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

O 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.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

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

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

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.