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Quotes About Wealth

There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.
~ Cullen Hightower
I haven't paid for anything since I became famous.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
I was paid $8 or $9 million for 'Evan Almighty.' I didn't want that money.
~ Tom Shadyac
I paint as if I were Rothschild.
~ Paul Cezanne
Guys like me are job creators, and we don't like having a bulls-eye painted on our back.
~ Steve Wynn
Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting.
~ Billy Rose
I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.
~ Andy Warhol
I always bought pictures, I only started to buy oil paintings when I started to make serious amounts of money because they cost a serious amount of money.
~ David Starkey
At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
~ Tea Leoni
We have such an embarrassment of riches when it comes to choice. Do you want to hike in the Alps? There are 300 pairs of shoes you can order within the next 10 minutes. You have your choice of everything.
~ Nick Offerman
Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Israel should share its great wealth with its neighbors, like the Palestinians, in areas like governance and investment as well as the building of institutions.
~ Jose Angel Gurria
I live in Palm Beach, where no one wants to hear bad news.
~ Jeff Greene
It's inconceivable to some people that that wouldn't be the sexiest thing to do in the whole world: to be a movie star, and make money, and be pampered, and whatever.
~ Debra Winger
I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!
~ Karl Schroeder
The original goal for Papa John's was to make $50 grand a year and have $50 grand in the bank so I could get a date.
~ John Schnatter
Money is just paper that gets us through life.
~ John Daly
Everybody you see around me, they're kings. Every last one of them. I ain't the only one that got paper.
~ Young Dolph
People would rather have art or gold instead of paper money.
~ Eli Broad
The rich and the well-born, according to the Federalist Papers, was greatly feared by the founders.
~ John Jay Hooker
I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire.
~ Howard Hughes
I've made $50 million over the years as a movie star, if you'll pardon the expression, and I've given most of it to the bookies.
~ Walter Matthau
I appreciated being rich because it allowed me to study in Paris and Geneva.
~ John Kendrew
You know you've become a brat when you have a room you like at the Bristol in Paris.
~ Alexa Chung