Quotes About Wealth

I used practically all the money I had available.

There's a real, brutal nature to the capitalism practiced by the main character in 'How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.' And I think playing dirty is certainly part of that.

With the duckets that I now have safe, I think I will retire at 66 years of age, praise God, in good health.

We like to say we pray in the church of Graham, Dodd, Buffett, and Munger.

But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect.

Good investors have to choose how to allocate their mind share with the precious capital they have.

I remember Michael saying, 'Rich and famous? It's much better to be just rich'. I didn't quite get it to begin with. But he's right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you've no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is.

I enjoyed 'Predator' a lot, and also 'Get Rich and Die Tryin'.' I really enjoyed that role and playing the O.G.

In 1936, John Maynard Keynes predicted the 'euthanasia of the rentier' before the end of the 20th century. It did not happen.

I prefer to stay poor.

I prefer being able to choose who I want to help or what I want to improve in the world by making a lot of money myself rather than just going out there and talking about things. If you have money to do things, it's much better than just talking about them.

People who are rich find it hard to understand the behavior of poor people. Economists are no exception, for they, too, find it difficult to comprehend the preferences and scarcity constraints that determine the choices that poor people make.

Truly a man does not live by bread alone. A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months.

Every English club in the Premier League has money so there is the possibility to do something.

Premier League clubs have a lot of money, that's why they're strong and have a lot of good players.

People go on about how much players earn in the Premier League but once you've bought a nice house and car, what else is there to spend it on?

I think the biggest thing in the Premier League is the divide between the people who have and the people who haven't.

There's lots of money in the Premier League and people think it's going to filter down. It does to a certain extent, but it's not all about that.

A preoccupation with money and, especially, with what money meant was, in our family, an inherited thing. My father's father, Jack, who died before I was born, was very much possessed by the idea that money was freedom.

The Labour perspective is often very preoccupied with either the super-rich or those who don't have work - but doesn't have nearly enough to say to those who do have work, on incomes that may not mean they get benefits or tax credits, but are not well off people.

Nothing can really prepare you for when you get in the Formula One car. Knowing that you're driving a multimillion-dollar car, and if you crash it it's going to cost a lot of money, and they might not give you another chance, is scary.

I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions.

He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.

I did a corporate gig where I presented on stage for an hour and was paid 12,000. I felt so guilty. It is still hard for me to accept I can earn that sort of money for an hour of my time.