Wilson Mizner Quotes

The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.

It's always weird when people approach me to make an investment. I tell them, 'I don't need any more money. I'm good.' Then I wait for their expression. That part is entertaining, because people look at you like you're crazy when you say you don't need any more money. Who says that?

I invested. I wanted to cushion the future. I'm a financial success!

I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

There are two things that you need to save for. First, you need an emergency cushion of no fewer than six months of living expenses. This needs to be cash in a liquid account where you can get at it in - yes - an emergency if you need it. In other words, money markets, not CDs. You also need to save for your future: that means retirement.

The problem is, how can we help them get rich and stay rich ourselves?

The only thing I did well was learn how to make money.

People should have an escape valve for their money, their assets. If you have substantial financial assets, the government is going to confiscate the purchasing power of those assets and spend it.

Our balance sheet provides us with the ability to act on investment opportunities in appropriate areas that diversify and broaden our portfolio, including the gas and energy sector.

I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man.

I never thought of myself as a wealthy person. I've thought of myself as a person who has had a lot of luck. I don't have the same stress that other people have, but there are too many things I could have done differently if wealth was what I was after. If I was all about money, I would have lived in L.A.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

My business life is really simple. It's like, get check. Put check in bank. Pay rent. I've never bought a stock in my life. I never got caught up in that trip. And the truth is, I don't obsess about money ever.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

Leave no stone unturned to help your clients realize maximum profits from their investment.

I don't want to be on anyone's board. I just want to have good investments.

Percentages are why I am rich.

The key to making money is to stay invested.

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.

If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty growing upon him, whilst he is eating out of the quick stock.

I invest in funds myself even though I run my own fund for my daughters.

I made 22 million in 14 years... with taxes, and travel and everything else, it gets blown out the window... which is why I still need to work.

Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing.

Thank God I have a financial planner who is really conservative.

My firm has 25,000 high-net-worth clients. A typical account would be that of a couple aged 65 and 60 who need their money to last the rest of their lives, 25 to 35 years.