Quotes About Wealth

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

I don't think equality is intrinsically valuable, meaning in and of itself. I'm not against inequality... if Bill Gates gets another hundred million dollars, it's no skin off my nose.

Money isn't always the measure of how valuable you are to our society.

The oil under Libya is the champagne of oil, drop for drop the world's most valuable.

The longer you hold a dollar, the longer you hold money, the more valuable it becomes over time. So the younger you are, the more ability you have to hold money longer term.

What's important in Libya is, first of all, it has a good deal of oil. A lot of the country is unexplored; there may be a lot more. And it's very high-quality oil, so very valuable.

Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others.

Allowing valuable sound recordings to pass into the public domain does not create a public asset: it represents a massive destruction of U.K. wealth and a significant loss to the U.K. taxpayer.

I placed too much importance on comparing how much I had to others early on. Then I started realizing time was a far more valuable asset. When I started using money to create more time, I appreciated both more.

Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.

Obama is a leveler. He has come to narrow the divide between rich and poor. For him the ultimate social value is fairness. Imposing it upon the American social order is his mission.

I am a man who has made a great deal of money, and I haven't got a great deal. This is because I give it no value, and a certain Christian precept is something to be lived by, and so forth.

I'd always had quite a privileged lifestyle, to be honest. I've never wanted for anything, but I do know the value of things. I'm not, like, a brat.

The funny thing is more money doesn't necessarily get you what you think it's going to get you and the way where it does get you more value on screen.

I'm not so in love with material things that I'll do anything for money. That allows me the luxury of doing things of value.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

We feel the value is in the land, not the improvements.

Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.

Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk.

Luxury is not about the things that you own. It is about something that reflects your personal values, something that shows the choices that you have made in your life.