Quotes about Wealth

This rise of the new global mega-rich is happening as established institutions are falling. The fall runs the gamut from the music business and traditional media to the Detroit automakers who find themselves obsolete, outmaneuvered, and out-priced by entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Mumbai, Shanghai, and even Siberia.

The longer you hold a dollar, the longer you hold money, the more valuable it becomes over time. So the younger you are, the more ability you have to hold money longer term.

Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it.

Without labor there is neither wealth, nor comfort, nor progress.

The profile of a wealthy person is this hard work, perseverance, and most of all, self-discipline.

Your money should be at work at all times.

Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.

I don't need debt. And if I need debt, if I want debt, I can get it from banks in New York City very easily.

Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.

Societies that depend on natural resources tend to have certain inherent problems. The limited concentration of wealth - whether from oil, coal, diamonds, or bauxite - often leads to corruption and authoritarianism.