Quotes About Wealth

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

A hair-hopper is someone who pretends they're rich, who really wasn't brought up very wealthy but now tries to brag that they're rich, and they spend too much time on their hair.

We want to exert pressure on wealthy people.

Our entire political system is financed by wealthy private interests buying politicians and making sure the rules are written in their favor.

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.

The invention of the micro-loan was a big surprise to me. Who would have guessed loans of less than $20 made to poor people in undeveloped countries could create thriving local economies? And, even more surprisingly, that they more reliably pay off their debts than the wealthy of the world.

There was a time in my life when I was independently wealthy.

You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.

Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

Wealth is just consistency... I don't want to be rich. I want to be wealthy.

I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.

Sadly, the system in this country is rigged in favor of wealthy elites who have purchased tremendous influence in our government.

My grandfather was a wealthy and respected merchant in Montclair, New Jersey, where I was born. But his estate was wiped out in the Great Depression, and as a result, I had what I consider the ideal upbringing: We were a proud family, good citizens, and we didn't have a sou.

Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.

Oprah is a wealthy person, pack leader of the human world. So many see her as the dominant one, as the authority figure. The way I view her energy, seeing her on TV, is a very calm, quiet energy. You need, in order to gain control, higher energy than your dog.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they were on the fringes of society themselves.

I'm not going to do class warfare; I want to be wealthy.

Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did.

What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes.

Staying true to who I am was tougher when I first got wealthy. Having great friends kept me grounded.

If the wealthy get wealthier, no one has to become one penny poorer.

I obviously enjoy being wealthy. It's enabled me to have a career that I've chosen and not one that I've been forced into.