Quotes About Wealth

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Our world is afflicted by poverty. Don't spend all this money on clothes!

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.

Entertainment can be a more powerful driver than poverty.

I have a poverty demon. I'll ask my accountant if I can afford something, and he'll say, 'What are you talking about?'

Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.

By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty.

In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.

Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.

I know some of the richest and most powerful men in the world, and they're jealous of me.

All I know is that Conservatives aren't interested in helping anybody but themselves get richer.

I would consider myself one of the highest-paid job guys in history.

I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away.

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.

I've always been that contemptible thing, a luxury communist.

When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.

Africa is rich, and why are we poor then if our continent is rich. It is not right.

Since I entered the league, half of my checks have always gone into a separate account... I pride myself on doing that. I've done it no matter the size of my contract or salary.

I never said to myself, 'Get to the NBA, be an All-Star, make a $100 million contract.'

You get a million-dollar contract, you can live off that the rest of your life.

When you come out of the NBA, you get a hundred million-dollar contract and a white woman!

I was blessed to get the contracts I had.