We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.

The term ‚globalisation‘ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

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.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

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

The bottom line on the Hyde Amendment is that it is directly, in effect, targeting poor women and women who don’t have money.

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

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

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

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

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

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.

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

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don’t need to imagine it. It’s called the United States of America.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

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.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

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

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.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

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

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

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

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

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

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

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.

Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.