Quotes About Wealth

It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

Think more like the rich if you want to create more wealth.

My mom said, "What I want is a happy kid, not a rich kid. That's what I root for." She saw how much joy I got from playing music, and those years were leaner than lean!

Money - like health, love, happiness, and all forms of success that you want to create for yourself - is the result of living purposefully. It is not a goal unto itself.

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

Most of us aren't that interested in getting rich- we just don't want to get poor.

Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly. . . .

Many would live by their Wits, but break for want of Stock.

If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.

With wealth, I can do pretty much what I want. But you've got to provide a good example because you have a lot of people that look up to you now.

I'm not against the corporations. They are our wealth. But they are getting too greedy. I don't want to do away with corporations. I want them to make our cars, however, not our laws.

Being poor is like being a child. Being rich is like being an adult: you get to do whatever you want. Everyone is nice when they have to be; rich people are nice when they feel like it.

The rich and powerful want to believe in their right to be rich and powerful, so they justify it by saying they are inherently superior to the poor and lowly.

Isn't it true that every aristocrat wants to die?

Fame has a lot of baggage to carry around. I wouldn't want to be like Bruce Springsteen. I don't need that much money and wouldn't want to have 20 bodyguards following me.

If somebody is doing more and more to make other people's lives better, have them make all they can, if that's what drives them, because that's what we want.

I don't see what else you can spend your money on... If you want to own things, art is a pretty good bet.

I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?

A foundation is a large amount of money completely surrounded by people who want some.

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can't think of anything I'd want to spend my money on.

I prefer to be sitting on the beach, but I can't. I want to be a billionaire.