Quotes About Wealth

During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires.

All I want to know is that I can keep this house for the rest of my days and I want to make good music... and have the odd sports car in the garage, obviously!

This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about - one is my job and the success that I've had in it, and the other is money.

I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!

The French don't think everyone should have the same bank balance, but they're offended by extremes of inequality.

The people I want are very famous and very rich, and all I can offer them is a bit of exposure on TV and a bit of cash, so it's a miracle we get any guests at all. But we have been very lucky.

The world has a great deal more to offer than money.

They offered me millions and millions and millions of dollars to write books about Cary. That was between us. That was private. I'll always love him.

No one in their right mind would turn down the contracts I've been offered.

Have you ever been offered a job by a poor person? No one has.

Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.

When you make money, it's natural to enjoy all the benefits it offers.

I've had offers that could've made me much richer and much more famous than I am.

Every time they came to power, the Congress engaged in large scale corruption. Even when they were in power, they did nothing to stop the hoarding of black money in offshore havens.

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

I started caddying when I was nine years old at a very exclusive country club in Dayton, Ohio. And I saw how the other half lived, if you will.

Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.

Iraq has, in effect, one export of any consequence. That's oil.

I want millionaires and billionaires and Big Oil companies to pay their fair share.

Middle class families should not be forced to scrape by with less while oil companies get away with more.

I'm OK: I don't need money.

OK, I've made a preposterous amount of money. But I was born with the attributes needed to do it.

The kind of money that show business will pay you, unless you need to have shoes made of diamonds, you can actually put it in the bank and sort of be okay.

Saudi Arabia makes a billion dollars a day, okay? They make a billion dollars a day.