Quotes About Wealth

If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.

When we utilize our gift, the universe thanks us by giving us an abundance of riches—from abundant opportunities to good health to financial wealth.

Eighty-five percent of small businesses in this country fail within the first two years. Eight-five percent! That's a whole lot of failure. Warren Buffett said that he would not invest in any business where the owner hasn't failed at least twice. I love that truly wealthy and successful people understand that failure is part of the process.

What good is a fast car, a flash house, and a gold-plated dunny to me. Absolutely no good at all.

I was worth about over a million dollars when I was twenty-three and over ten million dollars when I was twenty-four, and over a hundred million dollars when I was twenty-five and it wasn't that important because I never did it for the money.

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building.

If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.

If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.

It is estimated that if everyone on the planet adopted a Western lifestyle, we would need five planets to support us. Around 20% of people living in the wealthy Western world consume 86% of the world' s resources. The world' s wealthiest 225 people have combined assets roughly equal to the annual income of the poorest 2. 5 billion people.

Materialism is an insidious thing; the more you get, the more you expect.

look, and I'm sure you'll be amazed at the wealth of great books—usually there are several hundred freebies in virtually every category of fiction and nonfiction, every day of the year. And these aren't just the

The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.

Las Vegas is sort of like how God would do it if he had money.

My health is wonderful. I work out. I'm working. Playing music. I have a beautiful wife, a nice home, a nice car, I got money in the bank. I got three beautiful dogs that love me. Like I said, I'm blessed. I survived.

Being rich means making everything inconvenient. Remember to attribute that when you quote it. T-A-L-T-O-S.

Being rich means making everything inconvenient. Remember to attribute that when you quote it. T-A-L-T-O-

It is a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved by many friends. —Euripides

Words are like coin—it pays to hoard." "Until you die on a bed of gold," Paran said.

money's just an idea, it has power. Only it's not real power. Just the promise of power. But that promise is enough so long as everyone keeps pretending it's real. Stop pretending and it all falls apart.

The Wickans know that the gift of power is never free. They know enough not to envy the chosen among them, for power is never a game, nor are glittering standards raised to glory and wealth. They disguise nothing in trappings, and so we all see what we'd rather not, that power is cruel, hard as iron and bone, and thrives on destruction. ~ Deadhouse Gates

witness two scenes. In one, an angry, bitter man beats another man to death in an alley in the Gadrobi District. In the other, a man of vast wealth conspires with equally wealthy compatriots to raise yet again the price of grain, making the cost of simple bread so prohibitive that families starve, are led into lives of crime, and die young. Are both acts of violence?

They say that if you give your children too much, they don't get the joy out of work. They just want the unearned things to keep falling from the sky.

Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!

I've wined and dined with kings and queens, and I've slept in the alley eating pork and beans.