Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

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

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they’re learned to do more with less, and so they don’t hire.

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

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

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

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

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

The biggest and most deadly ‚tax‘ rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits – food stamps, housing subsidies and the like – if their income goes up.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin‘ wealthy.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

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.

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

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

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players‘ equipment.

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

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

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.

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.

In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

I just think that – when a country needs more income and we do, we’re only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that – that – when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

Money ain’t everything.

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

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

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

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

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.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

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

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

The reason why I wear gold – I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it’s symbolic of my African heritage.

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

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

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.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

The problem with being an employee or self-employed is you pay the highest taxes.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

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.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

There is no wealth but life.

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.

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

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.

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

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

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

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