Wealth Expectations Quotes

But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.

No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.

Oprah is rich; Bill Gates is wealthy. If Bill Gates woke up tomorrow with Oprah's money, he'd jump out of a window and slit his throat on the way down saying, 'I can't even put gas in my plane!'

Money has to be an explosion of excitement and opportunity, yet we already secretly know that it doesn't do what it promises. Nothing has ever given us as much pleasure as our pocket money when we were 12, or our first wage at the end of that first exhausting week, paid in folded cash.

People think that money and fame fixes and changes so much. Money does give you assistance and resources in this life. But you think that life will become easier, and that's not necessarily true.

Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.

I've made a ton of money but I don't have as much as I'd like.

I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.

Writing books and being paid for it - it's not like winning the Lottery. You can't suddenly go, 'Yippee!' and start throwing tenners in the air. I've done pretty well out of it, but certainly not enough to say, 'Right, that's me set up for life.'

I think that people think when you have money that your problems go away and everything's solved, and it's great and wonderful. You're a perfect human being.

People in L.A. think I'm so posh. They think I live in 'Downton Abbey.'

None of us seem to think that we should draw a line under what would be a satisfactory amount of wealth.