Quotes About Wealth

People complain about the rich-and-poor divide. It's crazy, no doubt about it. But what gets me is that today, a billionaire or head of state on their smartphone has the same direct access to information as a homeless person has on a smartphone - or a person in Bangladesh or Papua New Guinea.

When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.

I have no idea how much money I've got.

I never had to grow up. Everybody did everything for me. I was the first generation in my family to have money, and I had no idea what to do.

When you have so many things, and you have no idea why, you think, 'Maybe I'm supposed to do things for other people.'

It's not part of my ambition to become fabulously rich. My plan was always to make my pictures, and hopefully people would buy them, and then I'd buy a studio, buy a house, help friends out, do bits and bobs - but I've no idea after that.

Inequality is on the rise in Canada and those at the top have no idea what life is like for most Canadian families.

When billionaires can give $50 million, $500 million to a campaign, and there's no limit, then it makes a mockery of 'one man, one vote.'

There's no point in trying to hoard money after life, so better really to share with people.

The minute the money is more, you lose your control, so then there's no point.

I have a Mercedes. I wear a Rolex watch. I have no problem with the selling of things.

have seen billionaires, including convicted criminals, extract admissions of guilt from British newspapers too poor or too frightened to fight, and use them to convince journalists and politicians around the world that legitimate criticisms of their actions were groundless.

Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable.

The difference between these people and me is that they finished college and I didn't; as a consequence, they have smart jobs and I have a scruffy job, they are rich and I am poor, they are self confident and I am incontinent... they have opinions and I have lists.

But I didn't know where I wanted to go. Or what I wanted to do when I got there. I had dreams, but they were vague things with no real substance. I wanted to be famous, or really rich, or wildly successful, but that was as far as the dream went. My whole life was a fill-in-the-blank.

Thirty years on, things have changes to the extent that Wayne Rooney could comfortably afford to employ the best-paid banker in Britain full-time, if he could see any purpose or momentary amusement in doing so.

She was privileged enough to feel at home anywhere, and to equate squalor with authenticity.

There is no privilege as great as that enjoyed by those 'To Whom Things Come Easily'.

At the end, all that is left of you are your possessions

These valuable thing produced in us a feeling of intimidation. We knew that no matter how far we got in life, we would never really be meant for such fineness, that the few expensive antiques we did have had fallen to us from a higher life and now condescended to live among us.

Fame and fortune are calling. Are we taking the call or blocking the number?

Death had always stalked the explorers, but in an age that held life cheap the risk had been worth the reward. Men who lived in hope of heaven and fear of hell had been eager to serve as Crusaders; men born into poverty had hungered to touch the wealth of the East. Yet the wealth had stuck to the fingers of the elite, and faith had proved a poor defense against disease, famine, and storms.

He limited his jewelry to a modest bracelet sporting a twenty-carat diamond set in platinum...

Whoever is rich, and is a communist, is an idiot, he would say. Whoever is poor, and is not a communist, is a bigger idiot.