Quotes About Wealth

Success isn't about things we acquire.

I'm a real security addict and I've always channelled far too much of my life into accumulating money.

Everyone thinks I am rich, I have a plush office, I make advertisements and travel - but only I know the kinds of problems I face.

You need money to have advocacy in America. People that don't have money don't have advocacy.

You can't allow money to affect your happiness because that is never going to bring you joy.

Success has affected my self-definition in that I have more money. Writers pooh-pooh that idea, but it's a huge deal.

If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.

You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult.

Most of the money I made has gone back to Africa or is going back to Africa.

Andy always thought that films would be where we'd make money.

I've been very, very fortunate. I don't need to work another day in my life. I have all the security I need.

Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.

She was making great money at personal appearances.

It's very hard to argue with someone who thinks he is God because he makes a lot of money.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Money changes people. It all seemed too big and arrogant to me I didn't feel like a member of the group. Everybody was fighting.

Rich, arrogant, lucky, mollycoddled and stupid. That's always people's preconception.

I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.

N'est-il pas dans la noble destinée de la femme d'être plus touchée des pompes de la misère que des splendeurs de la fortune ?

Die Elsässerin, die man mir zur Frau vorgeschlagen hat, hat sechs Zehen am linken Fuß: ich kann mit keiner Frau leben, die sechs Zehen hat! Das spräche sich herum, und ich wäre lächerlich. Sie hat nur 18000 Francs Rente! zuwenig Geld und zuviel Zehen!

Have you a mind to marry? You hang a stone around your neck; for if you marry for money, what becomes of our exalted notions of honor and so forth? You might as well fly in the face of social conventions at once. Is it nothing to crawl like a serpent before your wife, to lick her mother's feet, to descend to dirty actions that would sicken swine — faugh! — never mind if you at least make your fortune.

Napoleón no cenaba dos veces, ni podía tampoco tener más amantes de las que tiene cualquier estudiante de Medicina, no sé si me comprendes... Nuestra felicidad, amigo mío, tiene que caber siempre entre nuestros pies y nuestro occipucio, y, tanto si cuesta un millón al año como cien luises, la percepción intrínseca de ella es la misma en nuestro interior.

El secreto de las grandes fortunas sin causa aparente es un crimen olvidado, porque se ha cometido de una manera limpia. –Silencio,

Ce matin j'ignorais ce qu'était l'argent, vous me l'avez appris, ce n'est qu'un moyen, voilà tout.