“Money is a neutral thing. It means that it can be the main source of your miseries or your happiness. In the wrong hands, it is only harmful, but beneficial in the right hands.”

“It’s what is in your head that determines what is in your hands. Money is only an idea.”

Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor

“Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

“While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

“When you have money in hand, only you forget who are you. But when you do not have any money in your hand, the whole world forget who you are. It's life.”

Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist

“Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

“You know, it's quite all right to give the underdog a hand, but only one hand. Keep the other hand on your pistol - or he'll try to eat the one you gave him!”

H. Beam Piper (1904–1964) American science fiction writer

“Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery”

Judith McNaught (1944) American writer

“When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand, nor can your hand pick up anything.”

Alex Haley (1921–1992) African American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist

“If nature has made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) English-American childrens' playwright and author