Financial Misconception Quotes

Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.

It's the same misconception I used to have. I meet people and think they're millionaires and they're not.

I'm not rich, though everybody thinks I am.

People always assume that, if you're an actor who's been on anything from which you're recognisable, that you're making all this money, and it's just not true.

Never made a million dollars from any of my 78 movies. People thought I had this fortune, which I never had.

For people to mischaracterize my time or ownership of Blackwater as being some great financial bonanza, it was not. It was most definitely not.

Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.

I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.

Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

I do know that the world knows or thinks that I have money and lots of it. They perceive me as an old weak man and an easy target.

A misconception that exists in the eyes of the general reading population is that authors make truckloads of money.

I don't have all this money people think Olympic athletes have.

People have little idea, by and large, of the investment world. They are convinced they have an advantage.

We've been brainwashed into thinking that it takes more monies than it actually does to educate children. That's been one of the brainwash jobs.

Venture capital is debt. People don't understand that.

There's the common misconception that restaurants make a lot of money. It's not true. If you look at maybe the top chef in the world, or at least monetarily, it's like Wolfgang Puck, but he makes as much money as an average crappy investment banker.

People always think you have a lot of money when they see you on TV.

I'm always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.

A lot of the people that stop you - well, they're not nuts, exactly. They're more like super-fans. They think that I'm some sort of rich guy, that everyone in the movies is making the kind of money Angelina Jolie is making. They don't realize that most of my life has been a struggle.

You think you have the amount of money that is your credit limit. We're just wired to think that, you know? Until the bill arrives - a sobering moment - you think you're richer than you are.

Lots of time people have the assumption that I'm making so much money that I don't care.

People assume that because you are on TV you must be a millionaire, but unfortunately it doesn't work like that.

What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said.

People see you on television, and they think you make the same amount of money that Clint Eastwood does. But this is PBS. All these shows are done for free.

There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.