If you love money and you want to be creative, you cannot become creative. The very ambition for money is going to destroy your creativity. If you want fame, then forget about creativity. Fame comes easier if you are destructive.

Unfortunately, the only meaning that society attributes to life today is an opportunity to make money.

If you have enough faith, you can give up money and possessions. God will give you everything you need for your spiritual development.

If you had all the money and all the time in the world, what would you do?!

A saint never accepts money.

If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid.

How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.

What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.

Give up money, and all wealth is yours.

Your meditation, your practice, is what will truly make Gurudev happy. Not money, not gifts—only your sincere spiritual practice.

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.

Children, we should visit homes of the poor, orphanages and hospitals from time to time. We should take our family members along and offer assistance and look after the welfare of inmates. A word spoken with love and concern will give them more comfort than any amount of money. That will lead to the expansion of our hearts as well.

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Money brings anxieties.

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.

I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you.

It is not good to give money to everyone who begs; give food or clothing instead. They may misuse the money we give for drinks and drugs. We should not give them a chance to err. Try not to see them as beggars, but as God himself.

If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold your whole life.

Wherever desire exists ego exists, and wherever ego exists illusion exists because ego is the greatest illusion there is. Even in a beggar who has nothing else you will find the same ego as you will find in Alexander the Great, because desiring is the same. Alexander the Great may have much money and much power, that does not matter; he is still desiring. The beggar may not have anything, but he is also desiring.

Clinging to money is a lack of faith in God.

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

For Tibetans, the real strength of our struggle is truth - not size, money, or expertise. China is much bigger, richer, more powerful militarily, and has much better skill in diplomacy. They outdo us in every field. But they have no justice. We have placed our whole faith in truth and in justice. We have nothing else, in principle and in practice.