Quotes About Riches

The secrecy surrounding wealth and the anxiety of talking about money is absurd. If you are rich and you live well and you spend money and it is an essential part of your lifestyle, then you shouldn't be ashamed of talking about it. You shouldn't be ashamed of it. And I think you should accept it and be honest and open about it.

If the wealthy get wealthier, no one has to become one penny poorer.

I know people who are wealthy and they're miserable.

The rich have lots of money. The wealthy have lots of time. I've done enough to have lots of time today to watch sunrises and get drenched in the rain.

I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.

I got a lot of money, but when you wealthy, that mean that your children is ballin', your grandchildren is ballin'.

The early Rockefellers made their wealth from being in certain businesses and remained personally very wealthy.

Money's just a medium. I am extremely wealthy in all other regards.

How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.

We can be poor in spirit, and I don't even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing, it can be here today and gone tomorrow.

Trade is the all-but-forgotten weapon in the battle against poverty, but it can provide more help to the poor than aid can.

John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don't know if it is true, but one story I read was about one of his sons having to wear his older sister's clothes in order to save money.

It's diamonds in your pockets one week, macaroni and cheese the next.

The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had grown up really middle class. USC was filled with elitists, richies who would go skiing every weekend. So I pretended like I was part of that world - to be accepted.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

There is growing inequality. The families of the all-powerful Ministers are getting richer. The poor and hard-working Belizeans are getting poorer.

No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer.

I'm the poorest famous person in the country.

It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.