Quotes About Wealth

I always said... I want to be the one who creates jobs. I want to be the guy who develops the wealth of the nation.

Money is not of the devil. It depends on who's controlling it.

I don't really want a film as a present; you can get me a diamond ring.

I grew up in a home where diamonds were the subject.

I've never had big diamonds; I never had big cars.

I love diamonds and sapphires.

I didn't live the lifestyle of the rich and famous. My diapers were nappy cloth. I didn't live in a big house.

The very rich, very poor, and the very famous get the worst medical care. The very rich can buy it, the very poor can't get any, and the very famous can dictate it.

Have you driven a Rolls-Royce? There is a difference between a Rolls-Royce and a Nano.

My parents, they come from different backgrounds. They don't even value money.

With those long American TV contracts you think, 'yes, at the end of that I'd be rich.' But at the same time you feel inside you a kind of death, because I enjoy playing lots of different characters.

It's true you can end up as rich as Croesus but the thing I enjoy about acting is doing lots of different kinds of things.

My target is to make the players as rich as possible within the financial constraints of the club. My target is not to give them less money. I'm happy to make them rich.

The biggest revenue target is the preferential rate for long-term capital gains, which raises a perennial question: Why should capital income be taxed at a much lower rate than ordinary income? Capital assets are owned overwhelmingly by the rich.

It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

I don't think because you have money you have taste... Education and money - this is quite rare. No?

That's the staggering, humorous thing about money. If you haven't got taste, money doesn't matter: You'll always look ghastly.

You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

I do not put my tastes as incredibly expensive, but they are incredibly expensive for an average man.

Coming into the league, if I would've had money, then obviously I would've had more tattoos.

Instead of giving corporations a big tax cut, let's give the middle class a real, permanent tax cut.

I've made more millions than I can count. But you know, it's a faerie gold - the tax people take most of it, and the rest goes to people you need to stay alive, places to live, conveyances to get from here to there.

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.