Quotes About Wealth

Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity.

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.

If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.

I don't like the repeal of the estate tax.

Repeat after me: 'There is a very limited amount of easy money.'

We are a people who have learned repeatedly throughout our history that economic distress can help us to appreciate that there are other ways to be rich that are not financial or even material.

I want money to replace mental energy and physical effort.

Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.

Albert Einstein is reported to have said compounding is the eighth wonder of the world. Obviously, a dollar invested in your 20s is worth so much more than a dollar invested in your 60s.

I was left £50 when I was ten by a fairly distant cousin, which my father invested in GEC shares on my behalf. I became interested in the market and was given some more shares by my father, which is when I began looking to see how the shares were performing and learning how to read company reports, balance sheets, and so on in order to gauge that.

I think, in a lot of ways, celebrities represent the American dream. They have financial fluidity and options at their disposal.

Very often, I think about the people that I represent. I meet people who have thousands and thousands of employees and millions and millions of customers - and also make a lot of money. But I think about the millions of Europeans that I represent in order to try to balance that so we can meet on more equal terms.

I want to have a bank account that represents me being a pro athlete.

I think the East India Company represents what we would think of as a very modern approach to the world where everything was counted, every penny was counted.

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

We want everybody to get rich. The Republican Party is often called unloving, uncaring, not generous, or whatever - that's a bunch of baloney. We're the party that believes in free markets.

Who do you think controls the Republican Party? Big money controls the Republican Party. This is where their campaign contributions come from.

The Republicans are, 'the party of the rich,' my mom said, 'We're poor, so we're Democrats.' That convinced me. I had no wish to remain poor, so I became a Republican at the age of 12.

I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.

The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.

Companies don't get rich hurting their customers.

Companies become rich because they find a way to serve others better. And if someone at your company is not serving your customers, it hurts more than your company; it hurts America.

Where the assets of Facebook were hype, we have real assets.

The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.