Quotes About Wealth

My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because his whole life was cars. Sadly, he didn't live to see the day when I could have done that for him, which still hurts.

I have wanted to run my own business since my time at Clitheroe grammar school. I remember thinking if I could get a penny from everyone in Britain, I would earn £208,000 a year.

When I've had money I've always spent it. I don't invest. A pension? Yes, it's called my talent.

If I say I'm rich enough times and enough people say it back to me, I gotta be rich, right?

I can totally understand why people say: 'I'm going to do this T.V. series so that I can buy a flat'. But you've got to see what's of value to you as an actor.

When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

There are a lot of things about having money that are perceived to be cool but that aren't. Maybe if you're a CEO jerk who likes going coast to coast by himself in a G4, then that's fine. But that's not me. And it never will be.

Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.

As the wealthiest nation on Earth, we have made a commitment to provide health care for those over 65. In order to pay for this, each of us should contribute the same, flat percentage of our earned income.

There's a very small percentage of people that take limos to school and have $2000 handbags - no one in my high school had that!

There are a bunch of independent artists who became millionaires and they don't owe anything to anybody. They don't have to give anyone any percentage.

I don't care about perception I care about cars, girls & money.

Golf didn't seem like it was for everybody. I didn't grow up with a whole lot of money, and my perception was that golf was for a snootier crowd.

I want to travel the world and enjoy things, so if you gave me $50 million and said, 'You can never perform again,' I probably would take it and be fine with it.

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

Perhaps I'm old-fashioned but I don't think mothers want their 25-year-old daughters to marry 85-year-old men, except maybe for the money. Money, at least, makes some sense.

I would never manipulate somebody and put somebody in peril so that I could get rich off of it.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

I do not ask for the riches that perish or the fame that fades away like a morning mist.

My years of living the jet-set life were fun, but they weren't fulfilling. The perks and benefits were lovely, but all of the fabulous furs, fancy jewelry and fun fetes simply weren't enough to fill my soul.

Income inequality is one thing, but a permanent division into the haves and have-nots is an entirely different thing - and much less acceptable.

We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.

I want to be rich enough that, without being cruel, I could buy a horse, a white horse, and permanently attach a horn. A pearlescent horn. And then I could just be like, 'Yeah, I have a unicorn.' But I don't know how you do that without being cruel.