Quotes About Wealth

I do not expect NASA to go out and build settlements and colonies. I do not expect them to give SpaceX all the money needed to colonize Mars. I do not expect them to realize the future of humanity is contingent on harvesting the wealth of the solar system overnight and suddenly subsidize my asteroid mining project.

I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.

I already own two houses - one in Malad and another in Thane - but I sold off the Thane apartment and bought one in Bandra, because it was convenient and larger than my other homes.

I've been there and done all that, sold millions of records, and that doesn't bring you peace.

I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

When I sold my first business, I wanted to do something nice for my dad. I wanted to give my parents a bunch of money, but they wouldn't take anything from me. They were so happy for me; they felt they didn't need money.

Like most plutocrats, I, too, am a proud and unapologetic capitalist. I have founded, cofounded or funded over 30 companies across a range of industries. I was the first non-family investor in Amazon.com. I cofounded a company called aQuantive that we sold to Microsoft for 6.4 billion dollars. My friends and I, we own a bank.

I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.

I've sold a lot of records. Did I keep other artists from eating?

When you think about it, we sold about 120 million records, which relates to about £1.2 billion in the U.K. economy. We've seen very little of that.

I don't know how much money I've made, don't know how many albums I've sold.

I've never sold a lot of records.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

American politicians are responsive almost solely to the interests and desires of their rich constituents and interest groups that primarily represent big business.

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

Invest in good, solid companies in good sectors.

When a family is poor, everyone is poor, and there is huge solidarity. People will take a bullet for you. But when one makes it, it is like you owe everyone.

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

And here's the fact: the fact is it doesn't solve the problem. First of all, if you taxed these people at 100 percent, basically next year you said, 'Look, every penny you make next year the government's going to take it from you,' it still doesn't solve the debt.

Money doesn't solve anything.

It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.

We don't need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.

There's lots of things that can be solved with cash.

Once Ray was a Ewing, all the problems were solved.