Quotes About Wealth

You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.

Humans possess insatiable longings for wealth, status, and power, but are hungry, most of all, for love.

Cecily von Ziegesar

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

When it comes to prosperity, we need God's revelation of His purpose for it in our lives. Prosperity is not a formula where we observe certain rules and obtain wealth; nor is it a reward system whereby we get rewarded for being obedient children. Prosperity is one aspect of the nature and character of God; as His royal children, it is ours as we walk in agreement and unity with our Father. When, in faith, we receive God's grace of giving, we become Christlike givers who prosper.

It appears that from time immemorial, stark greed, the desire for wealth, has overridden all humane considerations. Greed has served as a kind of anesthesia, deadening humane sentiments and breaking the bonds of affection that relates man to man.

Her father was one of those tall, angular, self-embalming types. All balls and liver. His kind predated the notion of alcoholism. Groton, Princeton, Harvard Business School. His neatly clipped silver hair and tailored suits and unmitigating stare of eyes and trim old body said it all over in a simple, clear language: Chief Executive Officer. Do not fuck with this man.

He was being mighty chary with my money. Now that I was so rich, I could fling open the windows and doors and set the thermostat on forty, if I wanted to do something so foolish and wasteful.

America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.

I have a few customers who have two or three hundred bags. When you see a lady carrying a little dog bag or a little cat bag or an egg, it makes you happy.

Lake Como has always been a magnet for the elite.

Who wouldn't want to own the Lakers?

Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.

One rich Man hath Lands, not only more than he can manage, but so much, that letting them out to others, he is supplied with a large over-plus, so needs no farther care.

I don't dream to be like mega crazy rich.

I'm really fortunate that I've had some mega hits.

I can't afford to be a member of a golf course.

As someone who came to New York in the 1970s, I was, like so many of my friends, a certified member of what we now call the 99 percent - and I was a lot closer to the bottom than to the top of that 99 percent. At some point during the intervening years, I moved into the 1 percent.

Obviously no one wants to give members of Congress a lot of money, because they barely do anything, and many of them are terrible, but a Congress that is made up of rich-but-not-super-rich people is going to be more corruptible than a Congress of really rich people.

Men and women cannot live by bread alone. They must also tinkle. Show me someone who has no trouble tinkling, and I will show you a happy and rich person.

I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money.

I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman - and they do.

Even the brokest Saudi got a Mercedes.

I bought everyone in my family a car, I bought my mum a convertible Mercedes. I bought a studio at a ridiculous cost - just insane.