Quotes About Wealth

To some extent I could identify with that because I kind of just made my money and got out.

I am one of 40 grandchildren. What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking.

What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking.

I think, whatever ideological coloration we think actually applies to Trump, we can be pretty confident that he sees the American state as a mechanism to make sure that people called Trump are rich forever.

The 'Gossip Girl' idea and ideologies, like, they sort of encourage this certain kind of, like, materialism and superficiality that isn't, I would say, the best thing in the world.

You find you have a lot of friends when you are rich and idle.

If I could afford it, I'd buy 1,000 acres and put my house right dead-center.

If I could only have cash, I know that I would spend very little.

Spending $40,000 on shoes is downright ignorant.

I always ignore money.

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

People have even said my father paid Aditya Chopra to make a film for me. It's illogical. People say what they have to say.

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

Imagine you're 24 years old, earning what I earn and having all that I have. Wouldn't you be the same as me?

I never thought that I would become Nia Sharma. I never imagined I would end up earning this much money. I never thought I would earn this much in my entire life.

Only if you were lucky to be born in the right class, the one Donald Trump was born in, then of course you have a beautiful view of the world. You find that everybody else is an imbecile, because he doesn't think like you, he doesn't dress like you, he doesn't have the same girl as you, etc. But I call that ignorance.

For me, I get immense pleasure out of giving. I do what I can. I try and give around 10% of my earnings a year. Some years, I give more, some I give less.

Our politics has been greatly impacted, for the worse, by big money and the concentration of big money.

Quite a few plays I have written have an implicit critique of capitalism in that, if you follow it through to its end, what happens to the people who are left behind?

I've made a lot of money, and more importantly, I've saved a lot of money.

I loathe anyone impressed by fame or money.

When I started off as an actor, the last thing I wanted to do in the world was make money. I was under the impression, when I started off as an actor, that the more money I made, the more it would diminish from my creativity and my capacity to be an artist.

With the money, life has certainly improved.

Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.