It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
It is a pity that you students aren’t fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live.
In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.
In madness lies change, in change is opportunity and in opportunity are riches.
I’d rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.
I wrote without much effort, for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.
I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.[Chi uuole essere ricco in v dì e impiccato in vn anno.]
He does not possess Wealth, it possesses him.
God loves some people more. Those people end up rich. He loves some people a little less, and those people stay poor. You take a pin and scratch off one of these colored circles, and underneath you’ll find your gift and your fortune.