Financial Worth Quotes

My music is not worth $2.5bn. And also, I'm not rich.

Gold is the corpse of value.

Your net worth is not the same thing as your self-worth. Your value is not based on your valuables.

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

While I accept that large investment rounds will always garner headlines, it's almost as if the magic number of how much cash you've managed to raise has become both a stamp of approval and the main metric for gauging a business's true worth.

Self worth and net worth are not the same.

Believing that art is either worth a fortune or worth nothing at all.

You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.

It is one thing to want money-everyone wants more-but it is something entirely different to be worth more!

It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth just what can be delivered in redemption of it, and no more. We all understand that the notes of the Astors, and Stewarts, and Vanderbilts, though issued by millions, and tens of millions, are really worth their nominal values.

The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.

You have to put a market value on what you do.

I think if you're going to a concert and spending $15 for a ticket for you and your girlfriend, then you're going to buy a T-shirt, and you end up spending close to $100 a night, what with gas in the car and anything else to get you in the spirit of things, I just think that people deserve their money's worth.

What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.

I don't think anyone's worth $100 million if Michael Jordan wasn't, but hey, that's what Abe Pollin thought I was worth, and if someone puts $100 million in front of you, you're gonna take it, too.

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.

Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.

When everything that matters can be bought and sold, when commitments can be broken because they are no longer to our advantage, when shopping becomes salvation and advertising slogans become our litany, when our worth is measured by how much we earn and spend, then the market is destroying the very virtues on which in the long run it depends.

President Bush listed his income as $822,000. You know what John Kerry calls someone who earns $822,000? Not even worth dating.

They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.

Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.

An organization believes in me to where I'm worth $163 million, possibly $200 million. When you put it in that form, the responsibility hits home.

Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour.