Ricardo Semler Quotes

But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth ten times more, I should guess, That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear!

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

Am I in the Forbes 100? Absolutely not, and I'll never be there. But for the first time I make so much money that I feel poor, like I have to cultivate and protect this fortune. But I never had more than $20 in my pocket before RuPaul's Drag Race so I feel so privileged with money, it's terrible. I bought a $300 beige t-shirt today.

It's human nature when you first make your big fortune to want to show off a bit. I don't begrudge that whatsoever.

I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.

You know when you first get rich, and you, like, just buy everything that you see? I did that for several years. And I have sheds full of things, maybe sometimes nine copies of the same thing.

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

When you've got the money, you spend it. When you've spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!'

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

I try to wear $1 million a day. At least.

Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination.

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

I haven't turned into some rich monster. I've kept my perspective. But I am a bit spoiled. It's hard not to be a little spoiled by having a lot of money.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.

The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.

I don't dream to be like mega crazy rich.

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

The affluent society makes no meaningful distinction between luxury and necessity.