Quotes About Wealth

If we had a penny for each time God smiled at us, we would all be billionaires.

You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world.

The true wealth of a man is not what's in his pocket, but what's in his heart.

If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.

I wanted to be a rich, famous rock-and-roll star in that order.

You know why stardom screws up people ? Because it gives you too many choices. As a 20-year-old I was making as much money as, well, as much money as it was possible for a 20-year-old to make in India. That sort of thing could drive people nuts. But I put my in money in the bank.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also happens to be the 10th richest person in America, with a personal fortune of some $18 billion, likes to pick a fight - especially fights where the line between good and evil is particularly stark.

All stars are businessmen. Once you decide to become a star, you are talking about money, fame, and being successful.

Business people have been made into these rock stars because they've made a lot of money.

Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.

As the stars make more and more money - one person gets $12 million, $14 million, $15 million, $20 million - everyone else is expected to work for peanuts. And that includes some extraordinary actors who are, today, working for peanuts because the production companies have decided they don't need to pay these people, and they don't.

People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.

It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up.

The very beginning of European aesthetics started from Florence. Everything here was beauty, money, and creativity, the power of the good money.

I started my life with Rs 5,000.

I have earned enough money in my life. When I started my career, for about 10 years, I told myself I want to make money. Now, I just want to do different roles.

For starters, Portland isn't a great city to live in if you're a young, African American male with a lot of money. But that's especially true if you don't have anybody to guide you.

If you get rich in the name of the poor, fine and dandy. The problem is when you earn it. If you earn the money in the private sector by starting a business and hiring a lot of people, that's when you become the enemy.

Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.

I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.

When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world.

In the end, I have a nice house and groovy cars, and so do my bandmates. It's not like they're starving.