Quotes About Wealth

It made Daniel think. The people who had the least were the most willing to share. He outlined a dictum that he would believe the rest of his life: the more people have, the less the give. Similarly, generous cultures produce less waste because excess is shared, whereas stingy nations fill their landfills with leftovers.

This system, in which paper money is worth only a fraction of its stated value in gold or silver, was employed in the United States into the twentieth century. Then

the wealth created by the reduction economy was not one of material things but of time.

That's how it always was and always will be, he thought a little bitterly. We come in with nothing, and we go out with nothing.

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way.

The first time I ever saw St. Louis, I could have bought it for six million dollars, and it was the mistake of my life that I did not do it.

There's millions in it!

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'

A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

They say money talks, but all mine ever says is 'good-bye sucker.

The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

A fool and his money are soon partying.

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

I'm not so much interested in the return ON my money as I am in the return OF my money.

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Capitalism is a funny name which lefties give to basic freedom.

In America people have this funny idea about enlightenment and money. Money expresses a level of commitment. Studying enlightenment is like going to a university.

The rich hire lawyers and accountants for a reason - to pass the tax bill on to you.

I don't want to be rich and I don't want to be famous.

Funny, I never shopped. Even my jewelry - not a piece of my jewelry I bought for me.