Quotes About Wealth

Nearly half of the country is now classified as poor or low-income.

That was my fantasy, actually - to become a billionaire, buy the 'Sun' and the 'Mirror,' and close them down.

No matter how much money you make, you still have to look in the mirror.

It's the same misconception I used to have. I meet people and think they're millionaires and they're not.

The biggest misconception my whole life is that I'm rich, that I had all this money from my dad, which I did not.

I've always felt like a lot of people's misconceptions of me have to do with how I grew up. I grew up poor, and I grew up rich.

I'm a rich man, but I don't want to be a miser.

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.

I would be the first to say that while a lack of money can cause misery, money doesn't buy you happiness.

Earning a comfortable living and being responsible with your money is always a good thing. But, if you let that completely control your life, you're missing out on a lot of incredible experiences that money can't buy.

Investors should invest on what they know. The biggest mistake is to invest on what they don't know.

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.

You can say that Mitt Romney started with nothing! He didn't get an inheritance from his dad.

Nations that use commodity capitalism as a stepping-stone to a mixed economy based on commodity/intellectual capitalism will most likely become rich.

People in Shanghai make a lot more money than the farmers in the rice paddies. The rice-paddy farmers are not buying Louis Vuitton bags, but the upwardly mobile ones in Shanghai, who are all working in Wall Street-type firms, are infinitely better-dressed than people in the West. Their women take this fashion thing seriously.

I want everything. So my next goal - and this is the first time saying this - is to gain enough money to whatever means and create a mobile games studio.

Economic mobility will fix income inequality.

I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then, later on, I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all. When you have the ability to live that life, to some extent you find out that they don't have any magic cure for everything.

I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then later on I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all.

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

I've said this before: a homeless guy in Detroit has more mojo than a millionaire in Jacksonville.