Quotes About Wealth

I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.

The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway.

I own stock, and I also insure my car with Geico.

Somehow, I don't think Jesus came to Earth to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China.

A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives.

I don't think anybody ever makes any money buying and selling stock. They have to make money by keeping the stock.

Buy a stock at two, have it go to 30. You feel like you're on top of the world.

When it comes to valuation, there's only one thing stock investors really care about, which is earnings.

Whether you're earning income because you have money sitting in the bank or a stock account somewhere, you should be taxed on that income fairly and the same.

I want to open a restaurant, and I want to start selling properties. I want to own some stock.

If only the majority of the wealthiest top 10 percent of Americans own stock directly - which does not include pension and retirement accounts - then the divide between rich and poor is likely to expand.

My father was an investment banker, a stock broker.

Participation in the economy through stock ownership is a pretty important way of keeping the divide between the haves and have-nots from growing.

The stock market is a giant distraction from the business of investing.

Nothing is simpler than owning the stock market and holding it forever, and that's essentially the idea behind the index fund.

Who owns the future? This is the question at the heart of every stock market.

Anyone with a pension or retirement is an investor in the stock market.

I am not in the stock market. I am beholden to no one in what I do. If I spend billions on a fashion show, I spend billions. It's not public. And if I am in the stock market, I am obligated to account for things, and to show what the business is doing.

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.

I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.

When you are an entrepreneur, you have founded your own firm, it is so easy to find that you exist - you are the main shareholder of your company; it is very easy to look at the stock market position of your company to know how rich you are.

I was working as a stockbroker in New York and had the seemingly perfect life.

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.