Excess Wealth Quotes

All amassing of wealth or hoarding of wealth above and beyond one's legitimate needs is theft.

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

I can understand wanting to have a million dollars but once you get beyond that, I have to tell you, it's the same hamburger.

There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving. There’s no way! There’s no way that these people should own planes and there people don’t have houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers. Pants! I know you’re rich. I know you got 40 billion dollars, but can you just keep it to one house? You only need ONE house. And if you only got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms? I mean why have 52 rooms and you know there’s somebody with no room?! It just don’t make sense to me. It don’t.

Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.

The decent thing to do is to get rid of some of this money.

An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.

What's the difference? Ninety million or 80 million. You still can't spend it all.

I think after a certain amount, I’m going to give almost everything I have to charity. What else can you do with it? You can't spend it, even if you try. I've been trying.

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.

You cannot make money with a hockey team. You cannot make money with a hotel, either, and you cannot make money with a golf club. I have all three of them. When you have a certain amount of money, you do silly things - because it's pretty to have a golf course and it's interesting to have a hockey team.

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

That luxury, ossified Los Angeles world isn't good for the soul.

Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough.

Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

I had more money than I could spend in million lifetimes.

Nobody thought about having more money than you could ever spend.

No one ever died with too much money.

What man in his right senses, that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that man want who has enough? Or what is he the better for abundance that can never be satisfied.

Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.

I've got more money than I know what to do with.

If you're lucky enough to have a few hundred thousand dollars in the bank account, that should be sufficient for your own personal needs, and anything more than that you've got to put to good use.

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.

What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement.