Financial Perception Quotes

A billion dollars isn't what it used to be.

Economic growth is based partly on reality and partly on perception.

This is important. Money on its most basic level is a hard fact - you either have it or you don't. But on it's emotional level it is purely a fiction. It becomes what you let it become.

Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.

I do not put my tastes as incredibly expensive, but they are incredibly expensive for an average man.

Financially, people always assume you're good when you're a rapper.

There are a lot of things about having money that are perceived to be cool but that aren't. Maybe if you're a CEO jerk who likes going coast to coast by himself in a G4, then that's fine. But that's not me. And it never will be.

I was making $19,000 a year, and I thought I was rich.

Lots of time people have the assumption that I'm making so much money that I don't care.

You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.

Money itself isn’t lost or made. It’s simply transferred from one perception to another.

I probably don't make as much money as people think I make. I make more than the usual medium household. I'm one of the few middle class actors out there. The microcosm of Hollywood reflects the macrocosm of international finance.

If people associate you with the idea of loads of money, they in turn will give some of that money to you.

When I was a kid, my parents were always like, 'Money doesn't buy happiness.' I thought, 'You just didn't make enough money.' I had to go find it out for myself.

When you speak to a man or a woman about money, they will use water visualizations. For men, it typically is a river. Money comes in; money goes out. The level rises; the level sinks. For women, when you talk about money, to her... it's a pond. It's a set amount. She husbands it, and it typically goes in one direction... which is down.