Quotes About Wealth

It's all about the money. Write a check, and you can build anything you want.

I remember being really poor until I got my first $250,000 check from Faberge. That was pretty nice; I put it in the bank, and from that moment on, there seemed to be a lot of champagne and limousines in my life.

How can I go from this poor college kid one day and the next day get a check for $7 million. How's that going to affect me?

What's really nice is when you get a check in the mail.

Checks aren't money.

I like being able to donate my comedy to charity. I'm not a billionaire, and I can't write checks.

Because of how I grew up and on 'Made In Chelsea,' I never had any challenge.

Chelsea are like a beautiful wife who married a richer man after leaving me.

The moment I write out a cheque, it's an asset I have written off.

Anytime I hear that somebody's really rich, the first question is, 'Do you do anything with it? Or do you, like, chill? You just sit on it?'

The Chinese are saving like mad, but they are not getting a very good return on their savings.

You either have to choose your soul or you have to choose your bank.

My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy.

Iron Man is my favorite superhero.

Defense is superior to opulence.

Resentment is not morally superior to earning money.

For storytellers, financiers make ideal rogues. The easiest way to make characters unappealing is to make them rich - shorthand for spoiled, picky, superior, and cold-hearted.

Great wealth creates an arrogance and, to be quite frank, a god complex in some people that they start feeling like they can do no wrong, they own people, they're superior to other people.

I get paid very well and am happy with what I make, but I'm not in the super-rich bracket. I shop in a supermarket like everyone else.

I have an enormously privileged position. I make a lot of money - a matter of public record - I have a huge amount of help, and I'm more in control of the day and what I do than someone working shifts on the checkout, or running the produce department in a supermarket.

I see my friends who have superstar lifestyles, and it's great to have hundreds of millions of dollars, but at the same time, it's a sacrifice of your own sanity.

Human population supplies the labor necessary for the creation of wealth; carbon supplies the matter and energy.

I live very well, but I support a lot of relatives.

Our country was not built to support blood dynasties or to elevate the rich and famous to a higher ethical or constitutional plain.