Quotes About Wealth

The reason that most British actors are better than most American actors in the end is that they don't make any money. At the very end of their lives, they get into a space movie and they make a lot of money, but until that happens, basically, they don't have bank accounts. They live from day to day.

I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

The wealth disparity between the lowest and the highest continues to expand, and that's inappropriate.

Like everyone else, rich people respond to incentives.

I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.

If I can generate enough income, I'd like to get a castle, a historic castle that I can restore.

Carried interest... you're making money on somebody else's capital. It's not on your own. If that's not income, I don't know what is.

Expenditures rise to meet income.

Economists typically think that your happiness goes up as you get more money, but the more you have, the less each additional dollar matters. This means that you value money most in times when you have less income and more expenses.

You have to remember: what are incomes to banks are outgoes to families.

I make an eight-figure income annually.

The concentration of U.S. income and wealth in the hands of the very rich is a new development in my lifetime.

Working families spend about 90 percent of their income on consumption - buying stuff. The rich spend less than 45 percent.

Growing up low income and poor, I didn't have the best relationship with money.

I'm not complaining. I've made a very good living from boxing, better than any living I possibly could have done. Having said that, you don't live the rest of your life off the money you make in boxing. You still have to create positive forms of income.

There are some writers who don't write about people who do jobs. I'm not going to name them, but you watch one of their films, or you read one of their books, and you think, 'What job do they do?' They seem to have a nice house and a nice income. How have they got it?

We must ensure the economy really works for all, to address unconscionable wealth and income disparities that allow access to opportunity for some over others.

This is my life... I mean, maybe I have Rs 100 crore in the bank, sitting comfortably. If that increases to Rs 10,000 crore, what difference does it make to me.

I support tax revenue increases, including the top 2 percent, but only if accompanied by responsible spending limits. The key is balance.

You can tax the rich to pay for current spending. You can even tax them very heavily. But when the rich look forward for decades and see nothing but increasing taxes, debts, and government control of their businesses and assets - they will leave.

We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.

Increasingly, Americans don't own America.

I've been living the American Dream for over 25 years - just being able to do what I do, be creative, and make money out of it. It's incredible.

Let me explain something: I'm not incredibly rich.