Quotes on Money

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.

If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the U.S., realize they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value.

The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.

There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed.

We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.

I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.

Money is the probably the most successful story ever told. It has no objective value... but then you have these master storytellers: the big bankers, the finance ministers... and they come, and they tell a very convincing story.

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

Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune.

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.

I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them - which was much higher than what the trader was giving them.

I don't want the money. I don't want the drama. I just want to do my show. I want to have fun again.

I'm proud to be associated with the value system at Berkshire Hathaway; I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad.

As much as I want to help people, I had to accept the fact long ago that being stupid with money isn't illegal.

One of our things is that money follows; it does not lead. So we want people that are fired up and passionate about their mission... and people that aren't so married to spreadsheets and thinking that kind of voodoo controls the future. Because it doesn't.

A lack of money is never, ever, ever a problem. A lack of money is merely a symptom of what is going on underneath.

I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.

In the real world, 90% of the money spent on medical research is focused on conditions that are responsible for just 10% of the deaths and disability caused by diseases globally.

Some people are motivated by a need for recognition, some by money, and some by a broad social goal. I start from a different place: from the love of ideas and the urge to put them into motion and see where they might lead.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.