Quotes About Wealth

I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.

Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.

Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.

I think it's quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be starving people.

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it's not about the money.

If I won the lottery tomorrow - which would be a real trick, since I haven't entered - and was independently wealthy for the rest of my life, I'd write comic books, because it's what I like doing.

The IRS'll never sweat me or even put up a fight... Cause I'm sure I've paid more in taxes than you've made in yo' life!

If, as is generally the case, the heirs are not equal to the demands which life makes on an entrepreneur, the inherited wealth rapidly vanishes.

I've made a profit from everything I have done in life.

A Tax Loophole: A deduction that the other guy gets.

As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.

I just try to have a good time, enjoy my family, enjoy my life. I was having a blast when I was poor, and I'm having maybe a little bit more now that I've got something in the bank.

Money is that dear thing which, if you're not careful, you can squander your whole life thinking of.

The hard part was living the contrast between being rich and being broke. It was like being smart, and waking up one day to find yourself dumb as a rock, but able to remember your former brains.

The stock market is a financial redistribution system. It takes money away from those who have no patience and gives it to those who have." — Warren Buffet

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. [Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]

The celestial hypothesis is sheer propaganda formulated by the haves to delude the havenots.

What doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul?

Y de qué le sirve a un hombre ganar el mundo entero si pierde su alma?

I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed.

There is no romance without finance.