Quotes About Wealth

I think maybe ten years from now, I'm hopefully going to be, in like, Tahiti or something. Kicking back like in my huge mansion, if everything goes right, it's all up to me.

My family wasn't rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, 'Err on the side of caution.'

We tend to focus on assets and forget about debts. Financial security requires facing up to the big picture: assets minus debts.

Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.

Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around.

I gotta make money - it all tends to disappear in this field.

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.

The only way you can acquire anything is by writing a cheque. At the end of the day you're writing a personal cheque, which tends to concentrate the mind.

You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The amount of wealth tends to be less.

It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.

Once you succeed in tennis, financially you become quite well off.

White folks may let you in their country clubs to play golf, invite you out to dinner, take you out to play tennis, but when it comes to dividing up the money, that's a whole 'nother story.

It's kind of a crazy thing to decide that you're going to be worth tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars and set out to do that. It doesn't suit everybody.

I got a kick out of having a big bankroll in my pocket. Even if I only made a couple hundred dollars, I'd always keep it in fives and tens so it'd look big.

It is morally wrong for this country to require our citizens to take on tens of thousands of dollars of debt to achieve the American Dream.

My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.

When it comes to portfolios, my personal advice is for anyone who can, put money into forestry or farmland. Long term, you would probably never come near their returns in the stock market. In the world that I see, land is golden.

In long term investments, you don't need day to day management.

Black money is a cancer in our economic system, not yet terminal or life-threatening.

Money can be taken away from you, by the IRS or by pistol. That's why I always measure riches in terms of wisdom. No one can ever take from you what you know.

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.