Quotes About Wealth

Money grants you freedom, I guess.

Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, I'm very fortunate.

By the time I was 25 or 26, I would have earned a million, but if you looked in the bank account, it's not there because I've spent it. That's what it's there for. I don't want to be the richest bloke in the graveyard. Look at Elvis.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don't want to penalize those who have done well.

I had made a great deal of money, and I was proud of it. I was a capitalist.

Juventus can afford to spend a great deal of money for new players. But Napoli can always respond by playing magnificently.

It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.

It is fun to be Rich DeVos. It's great fun.

'The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me.

Movie directors who have filmed F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' believe it's a big book looming inside a small one, and they aren't altogether wrong.

The Romanoffs are like the other side of 'The Great Gatsby.' 'Gatsby' is about the people who don't have the history but who want it. And 'The Romanoffs' is about the people who have it and don't know what to do with it.

You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.

One of my favourite books of all time: 'The Great Gatsby'. I just think it's so well written.

I had no great love for the trappings of power.

I have incredible wealth, and I think there's a great responsibility to use this position to do good stuff.

In England there's a lot of money to create a great team like Barcelona.

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

People are the greatest asset class.

My greatest pleasure is still flying private. I spend between $300,000 to $500,000, depending on my year, on flying private.

Capitalism is the system that has enabled greatness and made America the envy of the world.

A healthy desire for wealth is not greed. It's a desire for life.

I think the main focus in America is - is basically greed.