Quotes About Wealth

I'd hear guys bragging about their new Gulfstream IV or IV-SP, and then I'd get to say, "That's great, guys. Let me talk about my 747 . . ." It was a great conversation stopper.

No matter what you do in life, you have to have a business mind and educate yourself about money.

Sommige mensen lijden omdat ze niet hoeven te leven. Ze hebben alles. Hun natje, hun droogje, een dak boven het hoofd. Maar ze hoeven niet te leven, want ze hebben alles. Als ze een boek waren geweest, zou een recensent vast schrijven: 'Aardig, maar de noodzak ontbreekt'.

Of course clergymen and other paid teachers and moralists admonished us to be upright and unselfish, and for people with good incomes it was easy to condemn those living on the edge of poverty as inferior, impractical, shiftless, and lacking respect for the social code. It was easy to shout thief at the other fellow when you had no temptation to steal-I mean steal in a petty way. But stealing in a big way was often accepted as good business judgment.

Let us all be happy and live within our means, Even if we have to borrow money to do it with.

From what we get, we can make a living. What we give; however, makes a life.

If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.

In the words of the Spanish Catholic saint Josemaría Escrivá, "He has most who needs least. Don't create needs for yourself."[19

Do you quantify your own success in terms of money, power, or prestige?

It makes no sense in modern life to use our energies to have five cars, five bathrooms, or even five shirts, but we just . . . want them.

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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame"—that's philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, writing in 1851, more than a century and half before social media was invented and made the whole problem ten times worse.

One of the many qualities that separate self-made billionaires from the rest of us is their ability to ask the right questions.

Income inequality has made having kids, much like getting a quality college education, a rich person's privilege.

I don't chase money and I need a place where I'll have a good quality of life.

Prosperity has nothing to do with the quantity of money that we have in our pockets, but rather with the quantity of goods that we can buy.

Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

At first glance, Martha Stewart, queen of artfully distressed home furnishings, might not seem to have much in common with Michael R. Milken, one-time king of junk bonds.

I'm a bit like the Queen in that I don't carry much cash.

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.

When you have over 500 million dollars in questionable contributions, shouldn't that start to alert people?

There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that.

People who truly have money don't need to go around talking about it. God can take it from you as quick as he gave it to you, and people need to remember that!