Quotes About Wealth

When you understand that everything - and I do mean everything - in this nation that we live in, if not this world, is connected to the almighty dollar, it doesn't mean you worship it.

Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.

One of the ideas that I wanted to highlight, which is actually a very bipartisan idea - it's not just about conservatives - is this worship of wealth, the CEO saviour.

That a man built the biggest church in the world is not an issue, not something to be excited about. The people of Satan also have money to build a big place and worship him.

My accountant worships me because I'm so cautious with my money.

Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for wealth and position more fully shown than in designating the seat in which each person should sit during public worship.

In Canada, there's a surprising worship of managerialism versus ownership and wealth creation. There's a real problem in this country with believing that management is the answer to our problems.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you'll be miserable.

Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf.

But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.

The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.

Being able to afford everything you desire is not, by any means, the worst thing that can happen to you. But, depressingly, and more profoundly, neither is it the best.

It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if we didn't have a salary cap.

There are some people who will tell you oil is the greatest thing that ever happened to Nigeria. And there are other people who will tell you it's the worst thing that ever happened.

Greed is the worst thing.

The worst thing to be in America and anywhere on the planet is poor.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.

I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.

I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.

The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.