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People who can least afford to pay rent, pay rent. People who can most afford to pay rent, build up equity.

People who grow rich almost always improve their sex life. More people want to have sex with them. That's just the way human beings work. Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac. Money did not make me happy. But it definitely improved my sex life.

People who care nothing about money probably exist or we wouldn't hear so much about them. But I've never encountered one in the flesh.

People who say that money isn't the most important thing in the world are usually broke.

People will always choose more money over more sex

People without independence have no business to meddle with science. It should never be linked with lucre.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

People with little money seldom realize that people who have a lot of money are also frightened. ... If security is based on having money, it doesn't matter whether you have a little or a lot, you're going to be afraid.

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

Persist - don't take no for an answer. If you're happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you'll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years.

Personally, I liked working for the university. They gave us money and facilities. We didn't have to produce anything. You've never been out of college. You don't know what it's like out there! I've worked in the private sector ... they expect results!

Philanthropy is all about making a positive difference in the world by devoting your resources and your time to causes you believe in. In my case, I like to support causes where "a lot of good comes from a little bit of good," or, in other words, where the positive social returns vastly exceed the amount of time and money invested.

Picking the right stocks is one of the hardest parts of investing, and every night on Mad Money, I try to take some of that burden off your shoulders.

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.

Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.

Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

Pound notes are the best religion in the world.

Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Professor Galbraith is horrified by the number of Americans who have bought cars with tail fins on them, and I am horrified by the number of Americans who take seriously the proposals of Mr. Galbraith.

Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just having money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

Public opinion always wants easy money, that is, low interest rates.

[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically.

Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.

Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty.

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another - usually about as many times as it can be got there.

Ray Charles revolutionary approach to music was also reflected in his politics and his deep and abiding commitment to Martin Luther King and the plight of African-Americans. Ray Charles may not have been on the front lines, but he put his money where his mouth was.

Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack.

Register my money, for the money gymnastic. Cause I make it flip now they be lookin all nasty.

Recently somebody said, "Hey, you lost weight," and I said, "Yeah, thirty-five pounds and three and a half billion dollars." So I'm quite a bit lighter and more flexible than I was.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace.

Recently the country has seen too much of our legislators, seeing them as a gaggle of check-kiting, judge-smearing deadbeats who don't pay their restaurant bills but raise their pay in the middle of the night. Many Americans-this columnist included-hitherto said tax increases are justified by the budget deficit now say: Give that mob more money? Never. Not a nickel of new taxes until term limits change the political culture on Capital Hill.

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six, turned again it is seven and threepence, and so on, till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds.

Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land.

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

Riches are for spending.

Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.