Money & Finance: Wealth Quotes

"I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities"

Abbe Pierre, Priest

"Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise"

Christopher Columbus, Adventurer

"But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them"

Christopher Columbus, Adventurer

"But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth"

Anita Roddick, Businessman

"No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property"

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

"I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money"

Walter Annenberg, Businessman

"Frugality is for the vulgar"

Francois Rabelais, Clergyman

"Broke is a Hollywood term!"

David Geffen, Businessman

"A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round"

Walter Annenberg, Businessman

"The lust of avarice, as so totally seized upon mankind, that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth"

Pliny the Elder, Author

"It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office"

Paul Samuelson, Economist

"Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money"

David Geffen, Businessman

"The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered"

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Novelist

"Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make"

Drew Carey, Actor

"Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world"

Ted Turner, Businessman

"I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty"

Imelda Marcos, Celebrity

"But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are"

Imelda Marcos, Celebrity

"Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee"

Aneurin Bevan, Politician

"It is no secret that our tax code is drastically outdated and burdensome to all Americans. Fortunately, more and more people are aware daily of the inequities that arise from things such as the estate tax, and it has come to the forefront of Congress' agenda"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"If I hadn't become a golfer, I doubt I'd be wealthy, because I don't have the sort of ego that drives a person all day long. I might have wound up driving a tractor"

Fuzzy Zoeller, Athlete

"Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars"

Imelda Marcos, Celebrity

"If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much"

Imelda Marcos, Celebrity

"I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent"

Lady Gaga, Musician

"I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put"

Paul Getty, Businessman

"I can afford to say what I wish"

Paul Getty, Businessman

"Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich"

Paul Getty, Businessman

"He that is rich is wise"

Daniel Defoe, Journalist

"My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing"

Paul Getty, Businessman

"People began to understand that with the acquisition of California, the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned"

John Moody, Businessman

"Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production"

David Ricardo, Economist

"If then the prosperity of the commercial classes will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn"

David Ricardo, Economist

"Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss"

Dick Gregory, Comedian

"The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people"

Andrew Johnson, President

"Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides"

James Reston, Journalist

"I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album"

Anita Baker, Musician

"Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in"

James Reston, Journalist

"Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence"

Larry Ellison, Businessman

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