Financial Status Quotes

Who is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothing but money.

The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

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

Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

My roots were pretty far removed from high income. It's interesting to be back there at the level of income I have now, at this stage in my life.

A politician that is poor is a poor politician.

Rich people acquire assets. The poor and middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets.

He that is rich will not be called a fool.

I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue is the only just reason for respecting anyone, lack of virtue the only reason for holding anyone in low regard.

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

I had very deep concerns about my financial status because I found that up until "Let's Dance" I was virtually broke again. I had been so irresponsible in how I dealt with my financial affairs. I take full responsibility for that.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

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

I was richer than Bill Gates for 3 days.

People who say that money isn't the most important thing in the world are usually broke.

I wasn't rich.

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.

Here's a guy that inherited $200 million. If he hadn't inherited $200 million, you know where Donald Trump would be right now?