Quotes About Wealth

I remember very vividly - I wrote about it in one of my books - my first IRA. I contributed $2,000 every year, and in 21 years, the funds in that IRA account grew to $260,000. Seems like sort of a miracle, but it happened.

When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.

Anyone you give a ton of money to is going to go slightly crazy. I don't think comedians are particularly special in that regard; they just are better or more vocal in their expressions of their craziness.

I think my father would have become a millionaire if he had grown up in South Korea or the United States... Almost anywhere else, business would have been my father's vocation. But in North Korea, it was simply a means to survive.

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

The concentration of wealth in the hands of the few threatens the ability of ordinary people to raise their voices and have a say over how our societies are run.

We're all weirdly single, middle-aged women with too much money who look to fill the void with too much shopping.

I don't rely on off-shore tax havens, and I don't want to invest in stocks and shares as we have seen how volatile that game has been since the financial crash.

I have a half-court in my house. If you saw my house, you'd think I was an NBA player. I have no golf setup at all inside, just a half-court for me and a volleyball setup for my wife, who plays.

In Europe, you would almost never have people with large amounts of income being happy with a two-volume vehicle like a hatchback or a minivan. They want to structurally show their societal position, which is why three volumes are so popular. They show 'I'm part of that hierarchy.'

The annual 'Forbes' Billionaires List speaks volumes about the movement and concentration of wealth across industries and geographies.

I ended up voluntarily leaving Ring of Honor when my contract was up because I was making so much more money on the independent scene.

It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world.

I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.

Globalization and trade liberalization were supposed to make us all better off through the mechanism of trickle-down economics. What we seemed to be seeing instead was trickle-up economics, accompanied by a destruction of democratic politics, as we moved ever closer to a system of 'one dollar, one vote' as opposed to 'one person, one vote.'

Nobody voted to be poorer, and nobody voted leave on the basis that somebody with a gold-plated pension and inherited wealth would take their jobs away from them.

Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.

You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a 'have-not,' but I knew that I wasn't.

I am rich because I sell a lot of books, but it's not my drive.

There's no seminar in the world that will give you multi million-dollar advice on building a business from scratch!

Money is sensual.

If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.

In Los Angeles, wealth and poverty are separated by the freeways. In New York, they're next to each other.