Quotes About Riches

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

My mind went back to my school-days and an old gentleman talking to the class about careers. He had said: "If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich but you will have a life of endless interest and variety." I laughed aloud in the darkness and as I got into the car I was still chuckling. That old chap certainly wasn't kidding. Variety. That was it—variety.

My friend, it is not an arduous task that I bequeath, for our order knows only silken bonds. To be gentle and patient, to care for the riches of the mind, to preside in wisdom and secrecy while the storm rages without — it will all be very pleasantly simple for you, and you will doubtless find great happiness.

Yo tengo dinero

for the wealthy.

and a huge diamond

Success has got nothing to do with being happy. I've been very rich, and been unhappy, and I've been very poor, and been happy.

Look at all the billionaires. If I know 15 billionaires, I know 13 unhappy people.

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

Marriage to a very rich woman posed problems.

The most expensive jewels are not found around our necks, but in our hearts.

As for women who were pretty, intelligent, strikingly sensual, the daughters of rich families—they would only have served to disrupt my carefully ordered existence

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.

When I started skating, it was such a small community. You didn't aspire to be rich or famous or make a career out of it because that wasn't something anyone had done yet.

What I've found after doing over 200 celebrity readings on 'Hollywood Medium' is that everyone is looking for the same thing, it doesn't matter how rich you are, how poor you are, how famous or not famous, every human being experiences loss and I'm glad the show starts a conversation about that.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

I don't steal things. I'm rich.

Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!

Good health, longevity, happiness, a loving family, self-reliance, fine friends … if you [have] five, you're a rich man….

Many people who live in expensive homes and drive luxury cars do not actually have much wealth. Then, we discovered something even odder: Many people who have a great deal of wealth do not even live in upscale neighborhoods.

His view of millionaires is shared by most people who are not wealthy. They think millionaires own expensive clothes, watches, and other status artifacts. We have found this is not the case.

Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore.

To unite the sinews of commerce and defense is sound policy ; for when our strength and our riches play into each other's hand, we need fear no external enemy.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and though avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.