"The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."

"The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life."

"A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large."

"Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services."

"Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs."

"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages."

"Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving."

"There is one rule for industrialists and that is: make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible."

"Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it."

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."

"Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets."

"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible."

"Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs"

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."

"There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured."

"Many people think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. if money is your ONLY hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a person can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless."

"Life is a game. Money is how we keep score."

"Without a doubt, any opportunity I have to build that up in New York, I'd do it. I told people all the time, always say, 'If it takes me taking a pay cut, I'll be the first one on James Dolan's steps saying take my money and let's build something strong over here.'"

"At this point in my career I'm not concerned about the money, it's about winning. Nothing else even matters."

"I want to win. I don't care about the money."

"I'm convinced that sending people to Mars is so expensive that if you go once and bring the people back and then go again and bring the people back, we're eventually going to run out of money. But what if we send people the first time and they don't come back? What if they stay there?"

"To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself."

"It's important to learn to say no. With tours and all of that stuff, there are so many aspects that go into it, it's easy to have so many people around you saying, 'Oh yes, yes, you can afford this, you can afford this,' and then all of the sudden you've spent $20 million on your stage, and you're like, 'Where's my money?'"

"Refiners had every incentive to get back up because there was a lot of money to be made."