Wealth Paradox Quotes

If we are so rich, why aren't we happy?

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

The biggest surprise was that a country like Angola, that has so much money, that produces so much oil, would be in such a mess and so difficult to travel in. Something is almost cursed in striking oil. It's like the lottery winner who ends up broke.

The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

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

You can become rich by being cheap but the problem is that even though you are rich, you are still cheap

The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.

Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.

I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.

You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke.

First of all, how could I be broke, and I got all these companies?

I never thought that the possession of money would make me feel rich: it often does seem to have an opposite effect. But then, I have never had the opportunity of knowing, by experience, how it does make one feel. It is something to have been spared the responsibility of taking charge of the Lord's silver and gold.

It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich.

Is socialism still for me if I'm a millennial millionaire?

One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

It is true that money attracts; but much money repels.

Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

It's actually sad to be rich.