Quotes About Wealth

People feel a great deal of their wealth or lack thereof in their home value. Despite the fact they're living there and not going to sell it per se, it does have a big psychological effect.

I always wanted to start a public company and make a lot of money.

When the private does well, there's revenue for the public sector.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

I'm the only artist who got paid by Puff, like really, really, paid.

One minute you're invited to Puff Daddy's party, the next you're at a bash with Donald Trump, Kevin Costner and all these movie stars. Sometimes you had to pinch yourself and ask, what's a girl from the Peak District doing here?'

When Puffy asked me to do the video, I said yes. Cuz it's all about the Benjamins!

I own two beautiful homes, and I'm always half-expecting the cops to pull in, seize me with firm compassion, and escort me out.

Finally, I do not believe that we should punish American families who have worked diligently to provide for themselves and want to pass along their success to their children and grandchildren.

No one is so rich and powerful that they cannot be punished, and no one is so poor that they cannot be protected.

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

When we make purchases on credit, they give us only an illusion of prosperity.

Were you a merchant, would you settle yourself in a rich or poor neighborhood? You would not be so blind as to locate yourself among persons who would not be able to purchase your goods. So with nations with whom we trade.

I have never had the money to make too many large purchases.

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

There's nothing pure about capitalism.

Just because you got money doesn't mean you're gonna be happy, and just 'cuz you can buy everything in the world doesn't mean you're gonna find your purpose.

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.

Show business is part of a larger culture, a world-wide culture that must make up to the fact that the accumulation of things doesn't make a life necessary any happier or purposeful.

It's hard not to chase the money. You sit at home when guys are out playing for a $6 million purse, and you know you're going to drop back on the money list, so you end up playing when you don't really want to.