Quotes About Wealth

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

Greed is an addiction. It's a machine that must constantly be fed.

We should take the time to learn and understand how to make the money work for us versus working for the money, and do your due diligence and understand what it is that you're investing in.

'Bernie versus Bernie,' for me, is these two extremes of capitalism. It's Bernie Sanders, the ultimate socialist, and Bernie Madoff, the ultimate capitalist.

I think there's a lot to be said for changing the balance of what we tax: wealth versus work.

There has to be more pressure on entrepreneurs, when they create great value, to give back. I always bank on an entrepreneur to give back and get great results versus giving that same money to the government.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

If you're 35, 45, or even 55 - you have a very long time horizon - 40 years or vastly more. That is you, and/or your spouse, are likely to live about that long, and you'll be investing the whole way.

I've never enriched myself via privatization schemes in Eastern Europe.

The rich support the poor primarily via taxes.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen.

Swisha House presented this vibe of candy-painted cars and big chains. I always had a fascination for flashy, expensive things.

I left Columbia in the mid-'60s. I had a guaranteed contract for, like, $100,000 a year. And I just let it go. And I wasn't a rich man. There were a lot of bad vibes around the whole thing.

Every country has rich people. But only a few places have achieved a vibrant and stable middle class. And in the history of the world, none has been more vibrant and more stable than the American middle class.

A growing, vibrant economy solves more problems than any government giveaway ever could.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

Martha Stewart has two houses in East Hampton. She has an old fashioned Victorian house and a very new modern house.

'Calcutta is a pot of honey' means that in the first half of the nineteenth century, before the society became truly Victorian in feeling and tone, Bengal was a place to make money. The governor-generals returned to England rich men. It was a bountiful, lush, prosperous, easy place to make a fortune - in coal, in jute, and particularly cloth.

If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.

Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.

I like playing video games, so I spend a lot of relaxation doing that, and I live in a big house with a pool, so that is also good fun.