Quotes About Wealth

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.

Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chicken dinners.

I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.

A lot of times when people become successful, people don't really understand what they had to do or the sacrifices they made to do that, or they assume that they had money. This is coming from, like, a kid who was broke and lived with roaches and a single mom in Dorchester.

I wanted to become good at golf because I saw a lot of really successful people being good at it - and I planned on being successful.

Family business management is a discipline that has evolved from an art into a science. The market for this line of education has been created by the growing recognition of family-run companies that shareholders are demanding greater clarity on issues ranging from succession to the management of wealth and the distribution of profits.

There's loads of succession stories to draw on.

In the ghetto we didn't even know there was such a thing as a private jet.

If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entrepreneurs make a lot of money, but if you calculate the amount of stress-inducing work and time it takes and multiply that by the low likelihood of success and eventual payoff, it is not a great way to get rich.

A lot of these girls have a goal in life to find a rich guy. I can smell it from a mile away. They won't catch me! I know what they look like. They come with their little Kelly bag and their Rolex and the Louboutin shoes that are slightly too sexy. Shove off! Do you think I'm going to be the next sucker here?

Rich and famous is not bad, but poor and famous sucks.

Trump is a real estate guy who sucks up to power to get buildings built.

I grew up in Communist China and never had much money to my name, and then, all of a sudden, I had giant student loans.

Money is... I'm very conscious of it because I have it. It's powerful, man. It can change you ever so slightly, ever so slowly, and all of a sudden you're addicted to a million-dollar lifestyle and you've got no choice but to make a bad movie.

I guess if you're a normal person and all of a sudden you're getting $10 million a year, it can go to your head.

Everybody in America started to define themselves by all these things they had around them. And all of a sudden it came tumbling down. So the old American dream has died, and that is a good thing.

I think every model has times when they get obnoxious and crazy. You all of a sudden realize you are young and beautiful and you have money, and you just kind of go nutty for awhile.

Finally, when the money was high enough, the script suddenly revealed itself as being very clear to me.

Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.

Suddenly, I found I was married to a millionaire.

It was the height of the Depression, and suddenly I am earning pots of money.

When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.

The more money you make, the more times people sue you.