When you have one million dollars, you're a lucky person. When you have 10 million dollars, you've got trouble, a lot of headaches.
A great fortune enslaves its owner.
J. Paul Getty, who still hasn't been buried - they keep finding oil! Never got a dinner!
Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.
The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.
Sometimes people who get wealthy when they are very, very young, it's a curse to them. They don't realize it.
Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.
Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.
