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

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

I’m filthy rich!

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

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

I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

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

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can’t I just be an ordinary woman?

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

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.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.

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.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin‘ wealthy.

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

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with 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.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

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

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one’s landlady.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

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

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.

I always like to create things that get attention. It used to be a problem when I wasn’t famous. Now, I can do whatever I want and people have to accept it.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.

Desire is the essence of a man.

Gold is hoarded. It’s estimated that 95 percent of all gold ever mined is still around.

There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.