Quotes About Wealth

We want Angolans who have fortunes abroad to be the first to invest in the country, thus demonstrating that they are true patriots.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

We certainly want those at the top to do well, but if you base your entire presidency and your entire economic platform on helping them do even better, you're missing what makes the economy tick. Because not everyone has been as fortunate as Mitt Romney, you cannot base your whole approach on a life experience as rarified as his.

I've never felt entirely comfortable in high society. I'm more comfortable talking to the bar staff than the super-rich. I don't really get what makes them tick.

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.

One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.

Today I bought two lottery tickets, because I had a feeling that it would be now or never - they were both blanks. So I am not going to be rich after all. Nothing at all to be done about it.

Whatever money I made, I did not buy an apartment or a car: I bought plane tickets and hotels and experiences.

Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.

Some, but much of my money is tied up in Playboy stock.

What would be better, that people build big houses thinking that they'll make capital gains or that they send their children to medical school and they do research on curing diseases? When you put it that way, it seems obvious. There has developed a sense of personal worth that's tied to one's house.

I had many luxuries in life, even before I tied the knot.

I have done everything I have ever wanted to do. I have swum with tiger sharks, been charged by lions and elephants. I have been shot three times, chased by crocodiles and, God be praised, I've made enough money that I can continue to do all the things I want to for as long as I am able.

As London is suddenly promoted as a super-wealth brand, the England outside London shivers beneath cutbacks, tight circumstances and economic disasters.

I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up.

When someone said, 'Let's go to a club' in New York, it often meant heels and tight dresses and money.

Once you learn from your mistakes and you tighten up your hustle and you know your business, you get rich. That's basically true with anything.

No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.

Even the ways we don't eat are based in class. The middle class don't eat in support groups. The poor can't afford not to eat at all. The rich hire someone to not eat with them in private.

Covetous of others' possessions, he [Catiline] was prodigal of his own.

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

The glory that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.