I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.
— Warren Buffett
Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.
— Warren Beatty
I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.
— Wang Jianlin
If you've made enough money where you're not worried about the rent or survival, you start asking yourself why you're on this planet. Your point is to do the most good you can before you die - well, I could do more good if I didn't die.
— Walter O'Brien
I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.
— Walter Isaacson
The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
— Walter Annenberg
I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.
I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
— Walt Disney
Money is a kind of poetry.
— Wallace Stevens
The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
— Waldemar Januszczak
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
— W. H. Auden
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
— W. C. Fields
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
— Voltaire
We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a business is not to generate extra income and to become rich and transfer the money abroad, but to look and evaluate what a businessman has done for the country, for the people, on whose account he or she has become so rich.
— Vladimir Putin
How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?
The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.
Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
If you only get money, but you don't care about a thing, right or wrong, you cannot last. That cannot sustain you for the future.
— Wang Shi
No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.
— Walton Goggins
I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white coat; he looked very calm, you'd give him money, and he'd give you something that you wanted to buy.
— Walter Matthau
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
— Walter Becker
Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.
It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
— Walt Mossberg
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
I've never been afraid to work for money; it's just - it got tough there to work and to write songs at the same time.
— Walker Hayes
You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.
— Waka Flocka Flame
Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They said that they couldn't do it; it would destroy them. I said they had to do it. And I finally got support from Hoffman on it.
— W. Averell Harriman
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
A figure who receives money from abroad for his political work, and thus serves some foreign interest, cannot be a politician in Russia.
After I met my partner, Mr. Protherow, we decided to start a banking project, and at the same time we started to think already about a business on a bigger scale. At the very beginning we thought more about gaining money, to have a normal life with our families, etc.
— Vladimir Potanin
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
I used to work for an SOE. The wealth I created didn't belong to me. In other words, I was only managing money for the country and the people.
Money isn't everything. Do you get married because of money? Do you have kids because of money?
— Walter Payton
If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.
— Walter Lang
An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
— Walter Bagehot
Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new.
I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their public relations or advertising agencies.
You reach a point where you don't work for money.
I never had money; I like nice things, but I don't let that run my life. At the same time, I have to let something drive me... so now I let the money drive me.
— Wale
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.
I do spend a lot of money on skincare now because I've become quite obsessed with it. I love brands like Dermalogica and IMAGE skincare.
— Vogue Williams
As far as oligarchs who acquire sports team abroad, and invest money abroad, I wouldn't treat this phenomenon as something bad.
