Quotes About Wealth

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

Obviously, there's no way of making money that doesn't hurt somebody somewhere, but there are degrees of scale and immediacy. A merchant prince or a banker or a wealthy landowner isn't generally required to take responsibility for the people he cheats, screws and starves; society couldn't function if that were the case.

We hold that you can't own anything that four strong men can't lift.

Americans are more than aware of their affluence- they almost seem to despise it at times.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.

They deem me mad for I will not sell my days for gold; I deem them mad for they think my days have a price.

By contrast, whatever happened to Maryam today wouldn't matter very much. She'd still inherit a business and a place in society. The rich lived in a different universe.

Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

Money, celebrity and power can be very intoxicating.

Debt can be the most addictive thing in the universe, and it can kill you. You get used to living high off the hog. It was intoxicating.

You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at the end of the day, cash flow is what is important. Gold doesn't give you dividends.

Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.

I'm an introspective guy when there's money in it.

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

I'm one of the first invention capitalists.

People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the people who are always more interestingly dressed, I think. Everything I do, I do with gut instinct. If I think too much, it won't come out right.

That's why I be so careful with my money and always try to invest. I see people who have it all and then lose it.

Being able to invest in myself and my company, I can make more money.