Quotes About Wealth

This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.

Greed can't again lead the way. We've taken that route before with terrible consequences for this nation and its people.

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can't do one of those three things, you ain't going to get any money.

Finance is about being short-term greedy, rather than thinking about the markets as a critical part of our society that exist to empower the world, rather than to enrich a few.

If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.

Money has no grey areas. You either make it or you lose it.

Disney has made $2 billion on 'Grey's Anatomy.' I don't have $2 billion.

I don't think estates are grim places.

Economic gross is making us fat.

Even though most of us love, love, love it when we're flush with cash, and we fantasize about what we'd do with more of it, we'd feel gross saying 'I love money' out loud.

Even though I made $800 million, I am still grounded.

I come from a poor background, I've seen struggle. Money will come and go, but I will continue to be grounded.

If you go from being a kid at school to being on £60,000 a week, that can be hard to deal with. I didn't have that, and maybe that's kept me a bit more grounded than some players.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

Any sport where people earn a lot of money you are going to get groupies.

I always tell people, when I was growing up I was really into getting money - I didn't really care about anything else.

Capitalism is the engine that has grown economies.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

We have seen economic growth. But we have not seen earnings growth.

Gary Cohn doesn't care about the estate tax, I can guarantee you. I can guarantee you.

I'd rather give up most of my wealth to have the guarantee that I can carry on working for the rest of my life.

I don't want to be poor, of course. But I try not to make that the guiding force behind whether I choose to do something or not.