John D. Rockefeller Quotes

Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.

It's not what you make, but how you feel about what you make and what you spend.

For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

I never cared about money. I'm not destined to be a rich woman. I'm destined to be a woman who makes a lot of money and never has any. I've made millions and millions and millions of dollars and I just spend it.

Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.

How many times have you heard someone say If I had his money I'd do things my way Hmm, but little they know Hmm, it's so hard to find One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind.

There's not too many people that don't think I'm crazy, for walking away from so much money. I'm at a restaurant with my wife, it's a nice restaurant, we're eating dinner. I look across the room, I say, 'You see this guy over here, across the room? He has $100 million.' And we're eating the same entree. So, OK, fine, I don't have $50 million or whatever it was, but say I have $10 million in the bank. The difference in lifestyle is miniscule.

It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.

I was talking to Donna Karan at an event and she said, "You know, Ralph, I still don't feel rich."

No matter how much money we have or make, we will probably never consider ourselves rich. The biggest challenge facing rich people is that they've lost they're ability to recognize that they're rich.

Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.

If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man.

I suppose with houses and assets, then I guess I would be a millionaire. But so are a lot of people.

My first job paid well for a young attorney. I was making over $50,000, which was more than either of my parents had ever made. I thought I was rich.

I like the idea of having money.

I still belong to a middle class family; middle class is a mindset than your financial status.

I think there are many people on £70,000 who may well feel that their circumstances are such that they are not rich.

I'm not as rich as I could be or should be, but I've done well enough.

I consider each of my dollars to be investment "soldiers," and their mission is "freedom."

The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditiona desire which?comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave.

He only is rich who owns the day.

People who say money doesn’t matter are like people who say cake doesn’t matter—it’s probably because they’ve already had a few slices.

I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.

To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.