Quotes About Wealth

Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of the human population of the world. But in my little, soft realm of trying to amuse a few dozen middle-class people with my books and articles, I did struggle to survive in my own way.

Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.

Africa has become the big game of the nation hunters. Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial, industrial and political prize in the world.

Money for me today does not really matter.

Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses.

Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.

When I came into office, people said, 'Billionaire? How do they live? What do they eat? How do they sleep?' Today, they see me on the subway coming uptown. A couple of people say hi, some people smile and nod. Some people just sleep. It's not an issue.

We're not all Kim Kardashian. We can't have $15,000 from head to toe every single day.

Can I say this in a humble way - I don't need the money. If I stop coaching today at Kentucky, my toes are up, and I'm eating Cheetos, and I'm fine.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

I can't see myself ever spending hundreds of thousands on anything that doesn't come with a toilet.

When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.

France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.

I haven't got a Cadillac. I've got a subway token.

That's what I'm tryin' to achieve. I want to be a heavyweight in this game, and I'm tryin' to get the big money. By the same token, the title 'Big Money Heavyweight' applies to everybody in the world. That's what everybody's tryin' to achieve.

I don't care about money. If I need money, I just make a token.

I think when we shot 'Tokyo Drift' I was a little too young to really understand what made Han who he is, and then I got older, and you start to make a little bit of money, and you realize that money will never buy you happiness.

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism.

I've found that a lot of successful poker players grew up poor. And I'm convinced that poor people have a risk tolerance that rich people don't have because poor people fundamentally don't value money that much because they're used to not having it.

Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker.

I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.

I don't see how a socialist government can tolerate hunting on horseback. The people who do this are snobs; they're very well-to-do.

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.