Quotes About Wealth

People love talking about how much an actor makes. A lot of headline space is dedicated to this.

If we don't have quality healthcare in our country, I mean, we're the richest country in the world. We should.

No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.

Fame and money and all that - you hear people say it a lot, but they don't mean a thing to me.

'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.

It's important that we educate Americans about how hedge funds and private equity play completely different roles.

I love the show 'Billions.' But the main character is basically a hedge fund scumbag, and he's the hero.

I don't see any magic in hedge funds.

Every decision I make is, 'How is this helping me become a billionaire?'

Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it's not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.

Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

Ariana Grande is a billionaire before she's been an artist. You have to work to be able to appreciate what you have... what work did she ever have to do in her life?

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.

Maybe this is my left-wing conspiracy theory, but the right has re-branded itself as kind of the everyman party: Who's the person you'd rather have a beer with? The Republican Party, even though it's a party of incredible wealth and corporate interests, has hidden behind this everyman quality.

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.

I have to keep working because, although I have land, I'm not cash rich and don't have the wealth of high-profile actresses - don't say I'm an 'actor.' That's a bit too modern.

Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

The rich do not want people who come from poor families to rise to the highest position in the country.

Our culture highlights the desire to always have more, even when we should be grateful for what we have.

Parents tend to value their lives more highly than people without kids, but they're different in lots of ways: They're richer. They're better educated. They're healthier.

We value 'stuff' quite highly. Why? Because that 'stuff' apparently matters. Not only that, we use it as a measure of how successful we are, and as a result of that, having more of this 'stuff' often determines how people treat us.

I've got three very expensive kids and I had to buy a house in Notting Hill.

I haven't gone hillbilly rich, where you spend everything you have.