Quotes About Wealth

You work hard for your income, and that hard work is what fuels the economy.

Good workmen are seldom rich.

Certainly it is important to work hard for your children, but if the only legacy you can give them is money it is a poor legacy indeed.

That's where money comes from, you work hard and you earn and then you spend it on correct things, and Public Image is a correct thing.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

People work hard and companies make big profits, but employees don't see that they share in the wealth they help to create.

People who work hard for their money cannot be placed in a worse position that those who allow their money to work for them.

I made 22 million in 14 years... with taxes, and travel and everything else, it gets blown out the window... which is why I still need to work.

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

When we work with our thinking, then to have great wealth is the same as to have nothing. That's the only freedom.

I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films.

If fifty men did all the work, / And gave the price to five, / And let those five make all the rules - / You'd say the fifty men were fools, / Unfit to be alive.

it's immoral to work to make money. There's something unlucky in it. You got to work for the work. You got to work on a farm, for the farm - then it makes money.

I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.

The nice part about being wealthy is I can do what I want to do. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. But I have to be honest.

To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn 100 million into $110 million is inevitable.

Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work.

Rich kids work hard. Most black kids aren't working hard enough.

I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.

All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

If you are given a lot of money without having to work for it, you won't appreciate it as much as if you made it yourself.

I don't see that anybody needs to earn $12 million for three months' work, quite honestly.

All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own.

The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.