Quotes About Wealth

Even though Mr. Trump is a billionaire, he is still able to relate to average working men and women. The billionaire gets along with the bricklayer.

It's very easy to relate to a kid who is having trouble in high school... less so to relate to a billionaire whose Lamborghini broke down.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

I always felt like if you get to a point where you've got enough money to invest in something real, you gotta invest in anything that's related to a natural resource because that's gonna be here forever - so you might as well invest in something that's gonna be here, rather than invest in something that's gonna wear out.

I feel like I have the fortune of privilege, particularly as it relates to my children.

I have made a lot of money during my career in show business and now I have the financial security to expand my deep interest in relating the gospel of Jesus Christ wherever I can.

The idea of capitalism and the relation that black people especially have to capitalism is something that's interesting to us.

Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government.

It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue.

Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.

And living in Australia I am relatively well off.

I'd rather buy something that is relatively depressed than something that is relatively high.

Where the quest for knowledge is relatively, and now almost absolutely, unrestrained, the public benefit will be great, especially where the certainty of the law ensures that knowledge is rewarded. This is exactly the combination that is the foundation of wealth-creation.

Even if you're a relatively small player in search, that can still mean a company that's worth several billion dollars.

Most elderly are retirees with relatively low incomes. But some may possess assets, and they will be classified as poor. As such, the elderly poverty rate could be overstated.

Was Prince Philip in love when he proposed to Elizabeth? At the time, he was a relatively penniless prince, with a rackety family and no home to call his own.

I'm just raising money. Dead presidents are my relatives.

After Huguette Clark died in 2011 at age 104, 19 relatives challenged her will, claiming she was mentally ill and had been defrauded by her nurse, attorney and accountant.

Hip-hop deals with bragging and braggadocio, being boastful. It's always been about who's got the most money.

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.

You either make money, or you make history.

You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor.

There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.