Quotes About Wealth

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

To be a winner, you've got to be an appraiser. You've got to be able to play at your best under pressure. And more money creates more pressure. Money is the finest fuel in the world.

Given the weight of an Oscar statuette, one made out of solid gold would be worth $219,000. That twinkle in a winner's eye would be more than just a realization that he or she is a decent actor; it would be the joy of holding a chunk of metal worth a new Lamborghini.

We've all heard stories of lottery winners, rock stars, heirs and heiresses, and professional athletes becoming millionaire morons who wake up rich but are broke by nightfall.

The Hamptons are filled with people who are winners Monday through Friday.

I want my kids to win. Winners get the corner office, the big house, the hot wife, the whole nine.

The ability to manage large assets well - it's like being Michael Jordan or winning the gold in the Olympics; it's what you aspire to.

If we find it hard to believe that winning millions might not be so lucky after all, we just don't have a good enough imagination. If I fantasise about winning the lottery, it doesn't take long before all sorts of worrisome potential consequences occur to me.

If you would be just as content winning a local Golden Gloves fight as you would making a pile of money as a professional, then fine, go become a boxer. But if the whole idea is for you to get rich, my God, stay in school and learn a profession.

It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.

I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get thin, or you get rich, because I've known lots of thin, rich, married people who are absolutely miserable.

Opera became popular in Texas the same way it did in a lot of previously isolated regions of the nation. It started with money. In the case of Texas, it was oil money, and it made a lot of people very rich, very fast.

A Texas girl who grew up in terrible poverty, I ended up leading a pretty glamorous life.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

When the price of oil goes up, the entire Texas economy takes a deep breath. Millionaires blossom like rain lilies. News races through the countryside that the money train is pulling into the station. Hop on board!

I've got one house and it's in Texas. Everything else is rentals for more.

I don't get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Spending money is much more difficult than making money.

I'd rather have money and be broken-hearted than be broke and broken-hearted.

A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Thank God I was able to buy my mom a house, switched cars, and bought myself a house.