Quotes About Character

I'm proud to be associated with the value system at Berkshire Hathaway; I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad.

Remember what being an adult is: It has nothing to do with money or awards.

Compromising your integrity for money, power, or fame will come back to haunt you.

There were few who preferred honor to money.

If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.

Nothing can be good if you do it for money or for fame.

I believe that close association with one who refuses to compromise with circumstances he does not like, is an asset that can never be measured in terms of money.

Money, influence, and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy and perseverances.

Money is not good or evil. It has no morals or intentions on its own. Money reflects the character of the user.

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

You can take away the money and the fame. I don't look at myself as any of those things.

Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

Spirit is the most valuable asset, more than money and any other power.

Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may pass from you to me, or from me to you, without a stain.

A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas.

A Christian making money fast is just a man in a cloud of dust, it will fill his eyes if he be not careful.

Abandon money for authenticity.

Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

But few prize honour more than money.

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.