Both poverty and wealth are excellent things, because they are extremes, but the middle ground is damaging to the soul.

The only investment I ever made which has paid consistently increasing dividends is the money I have given to the Lord.

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

I'm a little lavish I must admit. But I'm not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is.

Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

There are plenty of ways to get ahead. The first is so basic I'm almost embarrassed to say it: spend less than you earn.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich.

I've always loathed rich people, so I've become who I've loathed, which makes it doubly difficult, if you can follow me.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.

A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

In almost every walk of life, people buy more at lower prices; in the stock market they seem to buy more at higher prices.

We are lending money we don't have to kids who can't pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That's nuts.

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads.

When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.

People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is.

That which makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plant grow; it is life seeking fuller expression.

Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement'. Not so. No one was fooled

I feel that I am writing out of a full life. I am a rich man, rich in men known, in adventures had. I am rich with living.

Undermine the entire economic structure of society by leaving the pay toilet door ajar so the next person can get in free.

The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)

When you follow your heart instead of worrying about how to fatten your bank account, you can attract more ways to do both.

We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what we were up to.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Often, the more money you make the more money you spend; that's why more money doesn't make you rich - assets make you rich.

A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos with which we tamper at our peril.

No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.

It doesn't matter how much money you've got, or how many connections, there's always something you want that's out of reach.

Some people are money hungry and don't stop to think of who they're affecting and what really matters. There's a lot of ugly.

I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.

If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.

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

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