Quotes About Wealth

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

The amount of money that is in your bank at the time of your death is the extra work you did which wasn't necessary

Mladý muž je tehdy bohatý, má-li rozum v hlav? a dobrý oblek ve sk?íni.

You can't multiply wealth by dividing it

You can't make the poor rich, by making the rich poor

The past four decades have seen one of the most depressing developments in the history of the meritocratic idea: the marriage between merit and money.

Girls just want to have funds.

If you are curious and open to the life around you, if you are disturbed as to how, by, and against whom wealth and political power is held and used, if you sense there must be good reasons for your unease, if your curiosity and openness drive you toward wanting to act with others, to "do something," you have much in common with the writers of the three essays in Manifesto.

Money is something that keeps you alive and healthy and just keeps you focused. It's the drive. It's the passion.

My passion is creating lucrative opportunities around the world and online.

I'm a very passive investor.

There is no better example of social and economic policy discussion as an idle pastime for the rich than the World Economic Forum at Davos. These guys make the millionaire schmoozers at the Aspen Ideas Festival look like short-order cooks.

Capitalism is not so much an aberration as a step on an evolutionary path, and one that contains within it some of the answers to its own contradictions.

I don't understand this pathetic need for luxuries.

I think people who are not rich can be extremely happy. And I think the chances to be happy in this new world - with many more opportunities to be creative, to be online, to educate yourself - there'll be a lot more chances to be happy. It's not to say everyone will take them, but there will be a lot of new paths to opportunity.

Under Obama, income growth has been confined almost entirely to those at the top of the income distribution, continuing a pattern that began under President George W. Bush.

To somebody else saying all I need is 10 million dollars, then I've probably made it. But there are Paul McCartneys walking around with $500 million catalogs. That's pretty much what I want. And that's just music. That doesn't even include directing and writing of movies and all of the other things that I want to go on to do. So I have a big dream.

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

The equation I share with the camera doesn't change whether you place a camera in front of me or a live audience. Just the pay cheques differ. But that doesn't matter to me because I've so much money, I don't even think about it. It's just lying there.

When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way.

If I can pay the bills, I'm happy.

Everything in America is so stratified by class now. We have the 93rd level of income inequality in the world. You're already seeing highway lanes that are for pay and ones that aren't.

Commercial success certainly helps pay the bills.

Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.