Ted Turner Quotes

The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.

If you count all your assets you always show a profit.

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.

We're trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth.

Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.

Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.

Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it.

At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.

Such huge money has been made in China - it can be hundreds of millions in a year - and there's a need to validate it by showing what they can buy and how much of it.

Sometimes, we use the term 'growth' as a number and sometimes as an abstraction, but the underlying implication is always that, if the country grows at a certain rate, at the end there will be a pot of gold for everyone.

For most people, their wealth accrues slowly, and at any given point they say, 'Okay, I should kick up my standard of living because now I've earned slightly more wealth.' I went from the dorm room to having a billion dollars.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth just what can be delivered in redemption of it, and no more. We all understand that the notes of the Astors, and Stewarts, and Vanderbilts, though issued by millions, and tens of millions, are really worth their nominal values.

My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.

One journalist estimated my liquid net worth at $25 million. That's pretty close. My houses are worth another $7 million.

Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.

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.

Liquidity is a good proxy for relative net worth. You can't lie about cash, stocks, and bond values.

Your net worth can fluctuate, but your self-worth should only appreciate.

I don't know if I'm worth 80m euros, but I don't worry about the sums.

The only thing more embellished than Floyd Mayweather's pay-per-view buys is Floyd Mayweather's net worth. But his spending habits are real.

I read somewhere on the Internet that I have $50 million, and I think what they meant was 50 million pesos.

I guess there are different ways to handle success. You can multiply it financially and use it to multiply your net worth. That's always been very appealing to me.

I have already released my financials, which are massive, and, by the way, which showed a tremendous company. It's over $10 billion in net worth that I have built with a very, very small starter loan years ago.

Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.