James Surowiecki Quotes

I get paid very well and am happy with what I make, but I'm not in the super-rich bracket. I shop in a supermarket like everyone else.

In America, what you've accomplished financially is a measurement, whether you like it or not.

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.

My first job paid well for a young attorney. I was making over $50,000, which was more than either of my parents had ever made. I thought I was rich.

Money is not the ultimate point, but it remains the actual measure of success.

I had a lot of money for a 20-year-old.

I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

The man possessed of a dollar, feels himself to be not merely one hundred cents richer, but also one hundred cents better, than the man who is penniless; so on through all the gradations of earthly possessions - the estimate of our own moral and political importance swelling always in a ratio exactly proportionate to the growth of our purse.

If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man.

If a man has not made a million dollars by the time he is 40, he is not worth much.

The level of real income is not what determines whether they are happy or not. It’s their relative place in the pecking order.

He that is rich will not be called a fool.

I wasn't making any money, but I didn't feel unsuccessful because of that. You can do that in New York but not in Hollywood. In Hollywood, it is how much money you make.

I suppose with houses and assets, then I guess I would be a millionaire. But so are a lot of people.

Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.

You can't look at the dollar and say, 'I'm not what I dreamed of being unless I do this type of movie and it's a blockbuster that gives me this amount of dollars.' That's not good.

I'm first-generation money in my family.

Donald Trump, unlikely Mitt Romney, is not awkward about his money. He has absolutely no qualms about saying, 'I'm rich.'

I'm not one of these actors who's rolling in money.

When I started to make more or less serious money - for those times - then, of course, I wanted to show everyone that life is different: it's a new kind of life; we are earning this money. We wanted to pay taxes and live honestly.

I was richer than Bill Gates for 3 days.

Financially, people always assume you're good when you're a rapper.

I was, like, 17 years old, making more money than my parents.

I don't exactly know the moment that I was a millionaire but it was in my twenties.

I'm sure I could have been a rich man, but I never was.