Wealth Quotes

3042 Wealth quotes by 1723 unique authors

My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. — Warren Buffett
He's a wealthy man, a very wealthy man. If you have a half a million-dollar purchase from Tiffany's, you're not a middle-class American. — Mitt Romney
My personal taxes are 53% of my taxable income. That's 36% on the federal level and 17% for state and local. — Stephen A. Schwarzman
When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it is like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other way around. — Nick Hanauer
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. — Mark Twain
I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars. — Eddie Rickenbacker
Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer. — Ha-Joon Chang
As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate this would have… — Tony Judt
Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a typical GM worker.… — Tony Judt
A nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous. — Barack Obama
In short, it's a great economy if you're a high-level corporate executive or someone who owns a lot of stock. For most other Americans, economic… — Paul Krugman
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. — Rex Stout
If you are not happy while getting rich, chances are that you will not be happy when you do get rich. — Robert Kiyosaki
Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy. — Charlie Munger
In our society, the best predictor of a man's wealth is his wife's looks, and the best predictor of a woman's looks is her husband's… — Steven Pinker
I have no interest in celebrities. If all the superrich disappeared, the world economy would not even notice. The superrich are irrelevant to the economy. — Peter Drucker
In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities. — John Kenneth Galbraith
A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only… — R. H. Tawney
The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in… — William Graham Sumner
In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing. — Anatole France

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