Money and Wealth

The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.

I had my credit card stolen, but I didn't report it because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.

Things could be much worse. I could be one of my creditors.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

They don't put indicators on your car in Beverly Hills. They figure if you're that rich you don't have to tell no one where you're going.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.

All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

Wealth is any income that is at least 100 dollars a year more than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

I'm going to Iowa to collect an award. Then I'm appearing at Carnegie Hall, it's sold out. Then I'm sailing to France to pick up an honour from the French government. I'd give it all up for one erection.

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money except by working for it.

Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it’s a matter of inspiration.

I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Sometimes one pays most for things one gets for nothing.

I also believe that capitalism or, we should say, the system of free enterprise will prove unable to check unemployment, which will become increasingly chronic because of technological progress, and unable to maintain a healthy balance between production and the purchasing power of the people.

I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it.

The ordinary object of human endeavor—property, outward success, luxury—have always seemed to me contemptible.

I was originally supposed to become an engineer, but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.

The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship material success as a preparation for his future career.