Quotes About Wealth

I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls,With vassals and serfs at my side.

What is the use of building an expensive house when it will soon be sacked?

I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington.

Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C.

There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

Expensive clothes are a waste of money.

You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.

Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.

The Wall Street Dow Jones up and down thing that's moving when the stock market's open? That thing freaks me out. It's up, it's down, it's just maddening to me. I guess I'm such a super-focused kind of person that I get distracted really easy. I'll watch that thing, and it's like I'm losing money, I'm getting money. It's just crazy.

In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

I've done pretty well in my career, and I've watched colleagues who have spent most of the paychecks they receive on shoes and cars rather than bricks and mortar, and that's not me.

When I started to get all that money, I started to buy a lot of watches. I bought 6 to 7 watches, the rainbow Rolex... In a year, I had spent $3.3 million just on the watches.

I have some wonderful suits in my closet, a lovely car, some refined watches.

I have a nice house, nice cars, nice watches, nice things. I've got money in the bank. I'm not in need of a few quid - as it stands. It's all irrelevant to me.

How many BMWs do you need? How many Rolex watches you gonna wear in your lifetime, for crying out loud? What is it about that kind of desire? I don't understand it.

Watches are about status.

I would much rather invest in stocks, bonds, private equity and hedge funds than watches.

I got a lot of money like invested in watches. When I buy watches I make sure, like you could go buy and they're still gonna have the same price, the same value, or maybe more.

I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.

Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.

Obama might as well be president of Turkey or Brazil; it does not matter. It's the system that is absolutely flawed, where 25 or 35 or 50 people make multi, multi-billions on building Olympic structures while people live in Barbados and have no roads or clean drinking water. There's something pretty inequitable there.