Quotes About Wealth

The energy that New York exudes is as much the light of extinguished souls as it is the spark of individual enterprise. And while the full meaning of the city may prove elusive, all New Yorkers are painfully aware that it remains an intractable mass of contradictions. It is not just the extremes of wealth and poverty living side by side.

My first signing bonus was 3,500 bucks. I bought speakers and a five-disc carousel CD changer. Dude, I thought I was the wealthiest quarterback around.

I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things. And money helps. But otherwise I was never that interested in it.

I can do much, I can do everything for a man who will be my friend. I can give him power; I can give him wealth. I can give him reputation - the power, the wealth, the reputation which come to a man who speaks to a million people a day in the columns of a great paper.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

I know that money speaks more loudly than need.

Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.

When I was little, I used to adore gold. It was something special.

If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a good-looking single person between 20 and 35, with excellent muscle-definition and/or an excellent figure, and a large disposable income.

I would like to be in a really big, successful film - boffo, spectacular, $500 million!

Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of 'speculation'; but which ought to be called Gambling.

Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.

You can't spend your way to prosperity.

I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.

The competition between me and Bill Gates, probably: Who can spend money more effectively that can do better philanthropy.

We spend more on cows than the poor.

At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.

I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend.

I like to spend money on investments.

Facebook can spend and talk endlessly to defend itself so long as it keeps printing money.

It's always possible to spend more money.

Most people who are poor have their money in a bank account that earns negligible interest. With the rapid inflation that we have because of rampant government spending, the people are losing purchasing power - they're actually becoming poorer.

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.