Quotes About Wealth

I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of immense wealth and privilege and no matter what's going on around them they have a singular purpose to maintain their rank and to impress others.

Once you are wealthy, you are in a nice comfort zone and want to stay there. So I always look in the mirror and ask, is my philanthropy making the world a more just and fair place?

'No Flex Zone' is when somebody walks in and accuses you of stealing their cellphone, and you didn't, and you know in your pocket you have enough money to buy their cellphone, and you have your own.

I find that in my own life and with the people I've been coaching, when people make the decision to get rich, they're available to do things that are outside of their comfort zones and stretch themselves.

When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters but telegrams.

Fire tries gold, misfortune men.

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be a hundred or if I get to be a trillionaire.

In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him rich.

If you aren't rich, you should always look useful.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.

America - the best poor man's country in the world.

Noble ancestry makes a poor dish at table.

To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor, to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. ... No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent.

The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

Debt is a bottomless sea.

'Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Capital is dead labor that, vampirelike, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it suck.

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.