Quotes About Wealth

Some people don't have to be on the screen all day and they could be making interest on so many different things and making money. I look at people like that. Those are the kind of entrepreneurs I look at.

You're either making money or you're not. If you're not making money get out of the business.

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.

How different would this country be if few were engaged in making money and many in making things.

I like making money, but it's a scorecard. I'm not driven by that.

Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me.

When you have a lot of money, there's so many places you can go to manage your money. But when you don't have money, mathematically you actually need a financial plan more. You can't really afford to make mistakes. So why is this such a luxury product?

I was always able to get money, but now it's a little bit more money, and I manage the same way. I just want to see my family do better.

I'm not one of the guys that didn't know how to manage my money.

Many people are smart enough to know how to manage themselves out of the estate tax.

Because I didn't come from money I didn't know to manage it.

I was the only kid in Manhattan I knew whose parents had a car.

Money is the great instrumentality for manufacturing.

In markets, you have rich years, and you have less rich years.

Money isn't enough. Happiness takes more than a padded bank account.

I guess I wouldn't want to be rich. you'd never be sure if people liked you for what you were or what you had.--Tellie

she'd marry George who was richer anyway…lies, all lies! "I want you to do your homework from now on," Powell told the child.

After this, Boy became very curious about the mansion where the clothes and the food came from. He made me describe everything. Then he asked Good Thing 'Are there books in this mansion, too?' 'And pictures and jewels,' Good Thing said through me. 'What does Master wish me to fetch? There is a golden harp, a musical box like a bird, a—' 'Just books,' said Boy. 'I need to learn. I'm still so ignorant.

There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people; when the wealthiest of these foundations are joined in common purpose, they represent an unusually powerful force that is beyond the reach of democratic institutions.

the wealth they had accumulated from retail needed to hide its origins, for it is well known that the purity of gold increases the further removed it is from labor.

Let me spell it out for you. When a man's got something he don't give tuppence about and another man wants it enough, thruppence will usually do it.

what is money for, if not to get what you want?

I inherited my brother's life. Inherited his desk, his business, his gadgets, his enemies, his horses and his mistress. I inherited my brother's life, and it nearly killed me.