Quotes About Wealth

On these things he spent all his money and it was his ambition to have as little as possible in his banking account when he was killed, as, when he was depressed, he knew he would be, before the statutory age of forty-five.

Somebody said that to become very rich you have to be helped by a combination of remarkable circumstances and an unbroken run of luck.

encrusted with glittering seashore properties the boatman said cost £400 per foot of beach frontage

The world is not enough.

I wouldn't be surprised if in fifty years' time we have not totally exhausted the gold content of the earth!

Four bad rubbers would be double his income for a year. If something went wrong he'd look pretty stupid. Have to borrow from M. And M wasn't a particularly rich man. Suddenly he saw that this ridiculous game might end in a very nasty mess.

asciende aproximadamente a un millón y medio de libras esterlinas en francos suizos y bolívares venezolanos, en los que, por razones de prudencia, pues siguen siendo las monedas más fuertes del mundo

The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.

Watching him during the first several minutes of his delivery, Cecilia felt a pleasant sinking sensation in her stomach as she contemplated how deliciously self-destructive it would be, almost erotic, to be married to a man so nearly handsome, so hugely rich, so unfathomably stupid. He would fill her with his big-faced children, all of them loud, boneheaded boys with a passion for guns and football and aeroplanes.

She had a difficult case beginning in half an hour, a set of complicated marital claims and counterclaims that were set to absorb two weeks of her life. Both parties intended to remain exceedingly rich at the expense of the other. This was not the moment for poetry.

You're Mad Rogan! Leon burst out. Yes, Mad Rogan said, his voice calm. And you can break cities? Yes. And you have all this money and magic? Yes. Where was Leon going with this? My cousin blinked. And you look . . . like that? Mad Rogan nodded. Yes. Leon's dark eyes went wide. He looked at Mad Rogan, then glanced back at himself. At fifteen, Leon weighed barely a hundred pounds. His arms and legs were like chopsticks. There is no justice in the world! Leon announced.

It's awful to be rich and mind-boggingly handsome and have women fawn over you. My heart bleeds for you. Poor dear, how do you manage?

Only poor people are weird. Rich people are eccentric.

Here in America, money is something everyone can have, and because Trump poured cement with blue collars when he was a young man, he knows the vernacular; he speaks that language. In fact, he was probably much more comfortable with them than he is with the aristocrats, who are his financial peers.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don't think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.

I tell young people who ask me about a future in writing not to go into it unless they get married to someone rich.

Educated and productive young people are needed to help lift their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.

Send me the money and let the younger guys have the fame.

The fact that a lot of people, especially younger folks, are not investing in the stock market is something we really think needs addressing.

I've dealt with this forever: the younger woman that married the wealthier, older man. I mean, I'm tired of having to justify my 20-year marriage.

Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.

My father was the youngest of six brothers, and he was the brains. I never thought he was making what he should have. He had to split it with five brothers. So I made up my mind: I was going to go on my own and make my own money.

At age 26, I was chairman of UB Group but living like a 26-year-old. I lived my age. Which youngster doesn't like a Ferrari? Which youngster doesn't like a good time?... but my contemporaries were R. S. Goenka and Dhirubhai Ambani, captains of the industry but twice my age. You wouldn't necessarily expect them to be driving around in Ferraris.