Wealth Perspective Quotes

Money doesn't mean anything to me. I've made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.

I love nice things - I consider Ralph Lauren sheets to be a necessity, not a luxury - but I've known what it's like to be poor.

I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?'

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

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

People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don't value money that much. It's an easy thing for me to let go.

When you are starting out in your 20s, it is natural to think about all that you will have and do once you start making money, and making more money. That gives money way too much power over your life. It's not about how much you make, but the life that you make with the money you have.

I come from a family who didn't have much money but raised me to believe that money wasn't the most important thing in the world. We had enough; we were happy.

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.

I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.

I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel.

Money shouldn't be worshiped and it shouldn't be ignored.

Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.

There are those who say that children make a rich man poor. No, they have it backward. Children make a poor man rich. A rich man can't take his riches to heaven, but I'm taking my children

Poor is a state of mind. Broke is, 'I'm just passing through.'

Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.

The key to life is to be happy with or without money. Money only magnifies who you really are.

Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned.

There comes a point where it doesn't matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.

The dollars aren't so important... once you have them.

I'm certainly not a Robin Hood, I'm not that way. I don't want to come through, burn everybody for $200 a ticket and then they can't afford to come see me again. Plus, I just don't think it's right. I don't think we need that much money. I just do what seems like the logical thing to do.

Money can make or break you. It just depends on what you make it to be.

Money. . . those who don't have enough of it are only aware of what it can buy them. When you finally have enough of it you become aware- acutely aware-of all the things it can't buy ... the really important things, like youth, health, love, peace of mind.

People who care nothing about money probably exist or we wouldn't hear so much about them. But I've never encountered one in the flesh.