If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

The most popular labor-saving device is still money.

Anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, now that's the real test.

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

Oh! poverty is a weary thing, 'tis full of grief and pain; it keepeth down the soul of man, as with an iron chain.

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bond together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.

America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the “common good,” but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

Silver and gold I have none; but such as I have give I thee.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship…the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.