Quotes About Wealth

I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships.

As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?

I always say that in investing you want to buy stock in a company that has a business that's so good that an idiot can run it, because sooner or later one will. We have a country like that.

The assets you want to buy are the ones people have to sell.

I pay for things cause I want that slight edge over others.

I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.

To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.

It's unrealistic to think you can only have one good product. People are not that poor. They can buy what they want.

I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.

Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.

The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.

When you talk about a million bucks, if you think about it very carefully, it's not that much money, if you start to divide it. You have to figure out a philosophy as to whom you want to give it to.

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.

Three reasons not to have a [spending] plan: 1. You're rich enough to buy anything you want and still have plenty of money left over. 2. I forget the other two.

In fact, the bigger the bill, the less likely you are to spend it. If you want to really save money, spend only cash and carry only fifty-dollar bills.

The wants of mankind are supplied and satisfied out of the gross values produced and created, and not out of the net values only.

If you become famous and you start making money, then people want to give you things. It's the exact opposite of how it's supposed to be.

The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees; I want money.

The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's pocket. If he did not want it, it would be of no use to you.

People who want to act rich when they're upper-middle class. They try too hard.

If you have millions of dollars you are not going to get to continue doing what you want. You are into a world of commitment to that money and all the people that helped you get that money.

Riches ... don't consist in having things, but in not having to do something you don't want to do. ... Riches is being able to thumb your nose.

He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.