Quotes About Wealth

Avarice is a deadly sin.

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.

In Singapore, there may be 50 old-money families, but you wouldn't know them to look at them.

I come from an old establishment family from Singapore.

I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.

After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.

My sister does all this community-service type stuff in Portland that makes the world a much better place. And I make as much in a two-day commercial shoot as she does in five years, which is ridiculous.

My sister's fish tacos are out of control. I'd give her a restaurant if I were a gazillionaire.

I have nothing against rich brothers and sisters. Pray for 'em every day. But callousness and indifference, greed and avarice is something that's shot through all of us.

Either you sit on the pile of cash, or you continue to grow.

There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain - do something to make more money yourself.

I'll get to make a lot of money and do some bad sitcoms.

And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.

I think family, friends and a sense of community give you greater happiness than money. But, of course, one has to have a minimum on which to live. The joy I get from sitting around and having a laugh is immeasurable - much greater than anything that I have ever bought.

But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral.

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

The thing about Pablo is that he wasn't happy with what he had - just being the sixth richest man in the world. He wanted to be loved. He wanted to be accepted. He wanted to be President of Colombia; he wanted his kids to go to the same school as the Colombian elite. But he wouldn't be accepted by the elite.

Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet. And I thought it was big!

I once worked it out - after $12 million, all millionaires are the same. That's because we're all humans, confined to human scale. How many homes can you live in? How many meals can you eat? You can have a living room the size of a cathedral, but you won't live in it. It's too big.

I am always a little skeptical when I see people talking about how much money they have.

I remember where I was when I wrote that story, 'Mermaid in a Jar.' I was at a boyfriend's, and he was the only boy I ever dated who was rich, and his parents had a ski chalet, and I just didn't know how to break up with him, so I decided I would be celibate.

I have, oddly, two ski houses - trying to sell one.

There's no skill. You can be a rock and move into another cash bracket.