Quotes About Wealth

I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.

In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.

I threw away the whole of my working history, my photograph albums, diaries and stage clothes. Shoving big, ugly discs on walls is a bit like rubbing people's faces in it, saying 'I am considerably richer than you.' It is completely unnecessary.

America's vast population of working poor can only get so poor before even Walmart is out of reach.

Together, Apple and Walmart represent the intense separation of American life into blue and red, rich and poor, overpriced and undersold, hyperconnected and left behind.

Just wanna have plaques on plaques. That's what we goin' for.

I wanna sit behind the scenes and see nothin' but the greens.

If you wanna make a lot of money, you should hire me.

Money doesn't mean anything to me. I've made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

If you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially.

When I was a kid, I used to think, 'Man, if I could ever afford all the ice cream I want to eat, that's as rich as I ever want to be.'

People who actually have money don't want to talk about it. They want to talk about everything else.

As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.

First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I'd just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead.

I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.

I think my mom and dad both wanted to get across to me that... I obviously grew up with great privilege and was very lucky and was able to afford college and not have student loans, and they would pay for college, but beyond that, it would be up to me to make a living.

For the better part of my life, I was always trying to manufacture somehow what I would consider 'living.' Because I grew up sort of upper-middle class and I didn't relate so much to that as a life, and I wanted to really find 'living.'

I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.

The richest persons in Africa are heads of state, governors and ministers. So every 'educated' African who wants to be rich - and there is nothing wrong with wanting to be rich - heads straight into government or politics.

I'm not afraid of wanting money at all. Money will give me more power to do things that are truer to my spirit than what I'm already doing.