Quotes About Millionaires

I'm saying right now that if you're going to serve this nation in a federal position, you need to start proving that you're willing to sacrifice first. I'm saying... that people are sick and tired of the millionaires running the system.

There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem.

Millionaires, though, see objects like diamonds and good feelings merely as fruits. The root of true wealth, in fact, stems from your behaviors.

clean-shaven and dressed in the conventional disguise with which Brooks Brothers cover the shame of American millionaires.

I think the latest estimates were that we have about 250,000 millionaires and billionaires. President Obama wants to increase their taxes 13 percent.

My neighbors aren't millionaires. They're retirees who depend on Social Security and Medicare.

Some of the best health care services are free or cost very little and are even available to millionaires but hardly anyone knows they exist.

Most of the corruption in Albany is legal corruption, not illegal bribery. It comes from campaigns being funded by millionaires and corporations.

For far too long, Congress has been focused on the CEOs, the millionaires, the billionaires.

I make $7 million per year. I'm not going to be mad at a guy making $10 million. We're still millionaires.

We read and hear a lot about the celebrity culture of football these days, but some people seem to believe that players or coaches who are millionaires by salary are fair game in public.

QUESTION 2: DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH YOUR FAMILY SPENDS EACH YEAR FOR FOOD, CLOTHING, AND SHELTER? Almost two-thirds of the millionaires surveyed (62.4 percent) answered "yes" to this question.

About one-half of the millionaires in America don't live in upscale neighborhoods.

America is still the land of opportunity. Over the past thirty years I have consistently found that 80 to 85 percent of millionaires are self-made.

Nearly all (95 percent) of the millionaires we surveyed own stocks; most have 20 percent or more of their wealth in publicly traded stocks.

Nearly all (95 percent) of the millionaires we surveyed own stocks; most have 20 percent or more of their wealth in publicly traded stocks. Yet you would be wrong to assume that these millionaires actively trade their stocks. Most don't follow the ups and downs of the market day by day. Most don't call their stock brokers each morning to ask how the London market did. Most don't trade stocks in response to daily headlines in the financial media. Do

Interestingly, self-employed people make up less than 20 percent of the workers in America but account for two-thirds of the millionaires.

After twenty years of studying millionaires across a wide spectrum of industries, we have concluded that the character of the business owner is more important in predicting his level of wealth than the classification of his business.

In our most recent national survey of millionaires, we asked the respondents to designate their country of origin/ancestry/ethnic origin. The results may surprise you. TABLE

The median price paid by millionaires for their most recent acquisition was only $31,367.

The median price paid by millionaires for their most recent acquisition was only $31,367. The typical price paid by decamillionaires was $41,997, nowhere near the $75,000 figure it is assumed that rich people spend on cars.

The Toyota make was found to be number one in market share among both engineers and millionaires in general.

This millionaire's brand of watch is a Timex; her husband's is a Seiko (number one among millionaires). The couple buys their clothes at Dillard's, J.C. Penney, and TJ Maxx. They have purchased only two motor vehicles in the past 10 years: both Fords.

Most millionaires never earn one-tenth of $5 million in a year. Most never become millionaires until they are fifty years of age or older. Most are frugal. And few could have ever supported a high-consumption lifestyle