wealth illusion Quotes

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Paper money is like dram-drinking, it relieves for a moment by deceitful sensation, but gradually diminishes the natural heat, and leaves the body worse than it found it. Were not this the case, and could money be made of paper at pleasure, every sovereign in Europe would be as rich as he pleased. But the truth is, that it is a bubble and the attempt vanity. Nature has provided the proper materials for money: gold and silver, and any attempt of ours to rival her is ridiculous.

To measure success with material things is failure!

What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.

I'm not rich, though everybody thinks I am.

Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.

Wealth is the Conjurer's Devil, Whom, when he thinks he hath, the Devil hath him.

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.

Our wise men flattered us into the adoption of the banking system under the idea that boundless wealth would result from the adoption.

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that's it. The lifestyle doesn't change.

People don't want to be millionaires - they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.

Somebody said, 'Roger doesn't know how to spend money.' And I thought, 'I don't spend money because I don't have it!' If I had it, I could spend money! That's about the only time I was told that!

The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many bobbles because manufacturing has come up so quickly over the past hundred years that people have the illusion of wealth.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

I hate when men think that money is gonna buy you happiness... I mean, it helps.

Never made a million dollars from any of my 78 movies. People thought I had this fortune, which I never had.

Riches seldom make their owners rich.

When you can count your money, you ai'nt got none.

It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich.

To say that I'm enjoying a millionaire's lifestyle-well, I can tell you, I guess a millionaire's income doesn't go very far these days.

Don't you know that there's another bubble as well An expectations bubble. Bigger houses private planes yachts ...... stupid salaries and bonuses. People come to desire these things and expect them. But the expectations bubble will burst as well as all bubbles do. Come to my gallery and I will sell you beautiful things at a more reasonable price. But the point is that they will have value. Things of real beauty things of the spirit.

Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries with the hopes of increasing their wealth; so that avarice itself is so far from securing us against its temptations that it often betrays the more thoughtless and giddy part of mankind into them.

Every one should be wealthy, if only for a day, so that each might realize that be being rich is not the ideal condition that most believe it is. And like the land, we should have little need for all that silver when we cease breating. Let us enjoy the smiling faces of as many children of god as we can while we are able to see them.