Quotes About Wealth

I think I'd like my own plane, stacked with all my favourite films.

We have, in the E.U., a market rigged in favour of the rich and stacked against the poor, and I think that's wrong.

When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.

Enjoy the magic of compounding returns. Even modest investments made in one's early 20s are likely to grow to staggering amounts over the course of an investment lifetime.

I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.

It's true that redistributing income to the needy is politically easier in a growing economy than in a stagnant one.

Few Americans other than the One Percent have a stake in the American economic and political system.

People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.

I worry that every time I lay down my credit card of choice, it says something about me. About my social standing or how I see myself. The very colour of your card is an indication of where you stand in the wealth stakes.

This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I'm not about to screw with it now.

And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty line and 42 million on food stamps, and then you look at poverty around the world, clearly the way we're running the engine of capitalism is not serving us well.

I've always said it's easier for bands to make a hard stance - like, we don't do commercials or whatever, blah blah blah - when you've sold billions of records. It's super-easy to be righteous when you're rich.

I will stand up for what I believe and for what I have always believed: Every person has a right to be rich in this country and I want to help them get there.

Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.

Inflation destroys savings, impedes planning, and discourages investment. That means less productivity and a lower standard of living.

I believe in the gold standard. I like solid lumps of things. You can always melt them down.

I'm not averse to making a lot of money. But where does that end? I hang out with people with hundreds of millions of dollars. Is that the standard by which I should measure myself? Where does that take you if you're in my business? I think it takes you to pretty dark, corrupt places.

There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.

The advance of standard English culture was less assisted by government policy than by the sheer weight, wealth, and number of England's well-established cultural institutions.

When money becomes more important than any other standard, then we're all in trouble.

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.

It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.

If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't notice them. That is what my society is like, that is what the divide is like.