Quotes About Wealth

I grew up a big fan of the J. R. Ewing character of the 'Dallas' TV show, and I grew up around people who were very similar to J. R.: they had come into a ton of money. And they loved to flaunt it and loved to drive fancy cars and wear the big cowboy hats and nice suits.

There are certain TV shows that probably would have made me rich, and there are certain commitments I could have made that probably would have raised a lot of eyebrows that I didn't. But I don't look back at those decisions and say, 'Oh God, I'm such an idiot.'

The people who don't know personal finance have TV shows about it.

When I first started writing songs, I was probably about ten or twelve years old, and the first thing you think as a songwriter is, 'Can this be a hit? Can this come out, and people are going to hear the song and like the song, and then they're going to like you, and you'll get famous and rich?' That hasn't changed a bit.

It was great for me to go through all of my crazy Ferraris in my twenties. I think it was an inoculation against any kind of a midlife crisis.

The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.

I used to have about a hundred suits in my late twenties and early thirties when my stock was riding high and I was rich.

I don't exactly know the moment that I was a millionaire but it was in my twenties.

The history of the twentieth century - America's century! - has been pretty much a history of rising prices.

It's rather a strong check to one's self-complacency to find how much of one's right doing depends on not being in want of money.

Hee is rich enough that wants nothing.

Money wants no followers.

Fame compensates for a column of wants.

I'm really lucky because I found myself in a position where I can do whatever I want to do. I can make records, produce records, make movies, or I can do nothing. I'm not a slave to the dollar.

Every other start-up wants to be another United or Delta or American. We just want to get rich.

Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more were desperate for want of employment?

It's not that the universe wants you to be abundant; it is offering you the opportunity to take part in its abundance.

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth.

Emerging investors want to invest differently. They want to have their dollars - their investment dollars - do double duty.

It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.

I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.

I like reading books where people with a lot of money use it to do whatever they want. Like stay in expensive hotels and do whatever drugs they want and fly wherever they want.

My motives at a young age were, "I want to be rich and famous".