Quotes About Wealth

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.

Don't ever rely on one job, business contact, etc for your main source of income. Receive multiple sources of income for success.

Having money is about handling it the correct way. In my lifetime, I've both lost and made millions.

I need no fantasies to belittle the great treasures that I already possess.

In the recession people are going to be looking even more at what movie stars are wearing, as it provides a fantasy outlet.

In the middle of nowhere, a trunk heavy with gold is a burden, not treasure.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony

My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it.

I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business.

Haven, don't ask me to define the boundaries of normal. You know how I was raised. My father once struck strands of his own pubic hair onto a painting and sold it for a million dollars.

I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.

The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry.

[My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture.

Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

In foreign countries they fear baldness. They are so rich in foreign countries, they can afford to fear all kinds of silly things.

The fear of loss is greater than the desire for gain.

A lot of people don't understand how a lot of money is being made. There's a combination of fear related to that, envy, distrust that gets filtered into that.