“Once I began following my own instincts, sales took off and I became a millionaire. And that, I think, is a key secret to every person's success, be they male or female, banker or pornographer: Trust in your gut.”— Larry Flynt, books.google.com
“In a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.”— Nora Ephron, books.google.com
“I knew how one climbing the mountain of worldly success can slip down into the river below without being conscious of the descent till he is already drowning.”— Diego Rivera, amazon.com
“A newspaper man wrote an article that I had 300 million dollars, well, I wish I had a million dollars.”— Meyer Lansky, youtube.com
“Don't worry, don't worry. Look at the Astors and the Vanderbilts, all those big society people. They were the worst thieves—and now look at them. It's just a matter of time.”— Meyer Lansky, jewishcurrents.org
“Creating a huge personal fortune was never particularly a goal of mine, and the proof of that lies in the fact that even to this day most of my, and my family’s, wealth remains in the form of Wal-Mart stock. I think most people in our position would have hedged their bets a long time ago and diversi…”— Sam Walton, amazon.com
“No individual or country will long thrive if they make money more important than people.”— Marianne Williamson, twitter.com
“We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege.”— Pierre Trudeau, en.wikiquote.org
“When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatise those who let people die, not those who struggle to live.”— Sarah Kendzior, aljazeera.com
“One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.”— Charles Barkley, espn.com
“My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.”— Charles Barkley, books.google.com
“Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.”— Barry Goldwater, washingtonpost.com
“These Souls with great Material Possessions were allowed this because of Past Good Works in their Previous Life, but now feel there is no need for Spiritual Progress. They are too easily forgetting why they were granted this Material Wealth in the first place. Therefore we must stop them from accumu…”— Mary Todd Lincoln, goodreads.com
“I think the doctors would especially like to keep one in bed. The love of money, is the root of all evil.”— Mary Todd Lincoln, amazon.com
“...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com
“Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth. But it is even infinitely more than this. It is the prime basic condition for all human existence, and this to such an…”— Friedrich Engels, en.wikipedia.org
“Everywhere the proletariat develops in step with the bourgeoisie. In proportion, as the bourgeoisie grows in wealth, the proletariat grows in numbers.”— Friedrich Engels, amazon.com