Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.

The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debt.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

This rise of the new global mega-rich is happening as established institutions are falling. The fall runs the gamut from the music business and traditional media to the Detroit automakers who find themselves obsolete, outmaneuvered, and out-priced by entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Mumbai, Shanghai, and even Siberia.

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things.

I hope I never git so land hungry and money crazy thet I have no time fer God, family, or friends.

The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it.