Excessive Wealth Quotes

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

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.

From abundance springs satiety.

I have no use for eight houses, 88 cars and 500 suits. I can't eat but one steak at a time. I don't want but one woman. It's silly to have as one's sole object in life just making money, accumulating wealth.

How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant.

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

Dubai has been built very fast. The plan was money. The architect was money. The designer was money … And if you ever wondered what money would look like if it were left to its own devices, it’s Dubai.

Give a hippie too much money and anything can happen.

They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.

I was making so much money I didn't care. I didn't know what to do with the money.

'China rich' is the new 'crazy rich.' It's a new level of outrageousness. It comes from this world where overnight fortunes have been made, but the fortunes are so ginormous compared to anything we've ever seen in the history of the world.

Where once they used to say, 'Cocaine is God's way of saying you have too much money' - now, maybe EDM is. Come ye lords and princelings of douchedom.

Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.

Many people and companies only have one goal: money, money, and more money. Greed is ok when you let others profit from it, but greed for oneself is bad, it makes you ill.

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.

The minute the money is more, you lose your control, so then there's no point.

I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

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.

For me, as I suspect for most people, there comes a point where you have enough. If you've got £20 million, why keep going until you've got £100 million or £1,000 million? Does anyone need another vast yacht or private jet or a house full of gold?

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

Now I know that lawyers must live, but I've never been able to understand why they have to live so blamed well!

Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.

The spirit of commerce is frugality, economy, moderation, labor, ponderance, tranquillity, order, and rule. So long as this spirit subsides, the riches it produces have no bad effect. The mischief is when excessive wealth destroys the spirit of commerce, then it is that the conveniences of inequality... are felt.