Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

Of course, I do everything for money.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

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

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I’ve experienced them both.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

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

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You’re not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I’m going to emerge then submerge.

These critics with the illusions they’ve created about artists – it’s like idol worship. They only like people when they’re on their way up… I cannot be on the way up again.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

Money has a language of its own.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

You can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

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.

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

I don’t call up the press and say, ‚Look at me!‘

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.

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

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert’s Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

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