Quotes About Wealth

It would be really great if I discovered a cure for cancer, but it would only be a little bit less great if my neighbor did. So I am pretty happy when my neighbor becomes wealthier, better educated and more innovative. I feel the same about China and India.

There are about 300,000 neighborhoods in the United States, and more than half of them have at least one millionaire living there. Most millionaires drive American cars. Out of the top 30 or 40 makes and models, Ford is number one, with about 10 percent of the market share.

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

I am neither the handsomest nor the richest nor the most powerful, but I've had the greatest women in the world.

These guys make a lot of money. Of course it's hard and dangerous work, but Sherpas are the rich people in Nepal. If you make so much money, you can somehow lose reality.

Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.

I have a nest egg, and I don't buy above my means.

I can't imagine painting my face in a team colour and roaring with delight as a multi-millionaire kicks a ball at a net.

If I collected all the diamonds in the world, I'd have no 'income' but I'd have a lot of 'assets'. Would my company be worth nothing because I have no income? A lot of Net companies are collecting assets. They have to be measured with a new set of metrics.

I'm giving away 2 percent of my net income every month. I don't think Bill Gates is doing that.

I never wanted to be on any billionaires list. I never define myself by net worth. I always try to define myself by my values.

The only thing more embellished than Floyd Mayweather's pay-per-view buys is Floyd Mayweather's net worth. But his spending habits are real.

My family and I have been blessed with good fortune in the world of business. We've created quite a net worth. My children, two boys, have more money than they will ever need, and they aren't empire builders.

One journalist estimated my liquid net worth at $25 million. That's pretty close. My houses are worth another $7 million.

I built a great company, one of the - some of the most iconic assets in the world, $10 billion of net worth, more than $10 billion of net worth, and frankly, I had a great time doing it.

I don't calculate my net worth.

I'm no wealthier than Bibi Netanyahu or Arik Sharon. I don't feel that I'm more hedonistic than Ehud Olmert, or Yitzhak Rabin or Shimon Peres.

I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.

If I had never gotten famous or rich, I think I'd be equally neurotic.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

When you start off broke - and we weren't broke, we were negative broke - you never forget that. You stay appreciative.

The New Deal saved capitalism - saved it from the big-time capitalists - though many of the big-timers didn't see it that way.

I lived in New Jersey in a massive house, not a 50 Cent mansion, but four bedrooms, and I had acres of land.

I buy newspapers to make money to buy more newspapers to make more money.