Quotes About Wealth

I pay about a third in taxes, I give away about a third, and I follow the law.

A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.

We all know far too many stories where the third generation just destroys everything that the first two have built up, and I certainly hope my family are different because I've worked too hard and my father has worked too hard for it to be given away.

We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.

I can imagine people in Third World countries looking at, you know, someone like Hillary Clinton raising $35 million for her presidential campaign that goes to really, you know, nonproductive means, and they see that, and they just - it's just really immoral, I believe.

No success will ever quench your thirst - my rich person's therapist told me that.

I think in the last thirty years, the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer. It is not something that you can see with rose-colored glasses.

Thomas Piketty assembles the facts to prove a central point about trickle-down economics: Doesn't work. Never did. He has cold, hard data showing how the rich keep getting richer and how the playing field is rigged against working families.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don't.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank they don't like to think of themselves as poor.

Even though I am fortunate to have certain luxuries, sometimes, I am even amazed by what people with money have and do. I want to remind people that just because you might be rich and famous, it doesn't mean you have to take yourself too seriously.

There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.

I've always thought my main concern is to alleviate the burdens on people, who were earning less money, perhaps than £80,000.

There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.

I'm very thoughtful and disciplined with my money.

For every dollar you give away, you'll get a hundred back. And for every buck you steal, you'll lose a thousand.

For as little as a thousand dollars, you can open an account at Schwab. I mean, it's not a big barrier to entry.

The first hundred thousand - that was hard to get, but afterwards, it was easy to make more.

My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac.

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2,000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1,000, and sell a thousand of them.