Quotes About Wealth

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

A little over 5% of the world's population produces almost 29% of the world's goods and services.

An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.

Traditionally in capitalism, when you have more cash, you can fund more activity, which produces more jobs and creates more wealth. That's basic economic theory.

Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price.

I think much of the media is decadent in the sense that the people who are producing the coverage, they themselves live very comfortable lives.

In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that same year, the United States with 150 million people had a gross national product of 300 billion dollars.

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.

I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it. You're aware that if you're nicking all the budget, somebody else is getting threepence ha'penny, or the production values aren't going to be so high.

What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence.

Let no one profess to trust in God, and yet lay up for future wants, otherwise the Lord will first send him to the hoard he has amassed, before He can answer the prayer for more.

Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful.

A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.

After being in the game so long, making so much money and achieving different things, now I think a lot more about impact.

My father always kept me in a very different world, a very simple world.

I think it's true - economically, you want to bake a bigger cake rather than slicing up an existing cake differently.

I may have been in financial difficulties, but I'm not a pauper.

My mum was quite poor, and my dad was rich. She didn't dig that, so she left him.

If you're locked into a philosophy of nickels and dimes, then you have a pretty limited approach to life. I don't need a lot of money to live with dignity.

Money really is a dirty word.

My goal was to be at the point - no older than 40 - where I would have enough resources to make a difference in the lives of disadvantaged people.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.

I was a very happy kid. I didn't get new bikes very often. We ate a lot of chicken legs for dinner. But I never felt in want of anything. I wasn't cognizant until much later of the discrepancy between what we had and what other people had.