Quotes about "Money & Wealth"

Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people. ”

Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have. ”

Liquidity is a good proxy for relative net worth. You can't lie about cash, stocks, and bond values. ”

I placed too much importance on comparing how much I had to others early on. Then I started realizing time was a far more valuable asset. When I started using money to create more time, I appreciated both more. ”

The freeways create economic and racial borders in Los Angeles. South of Interstate 10 is one group of people, west of the 10 another, and south of the 405 North yet another. ”

What I usually do is hoard money - I accumulate as much as possible in the fear of not having enough to pay tax. ”

I could never gamble on stocks and shares because I saw my father get hurt that way - he lost quite a lot of money when the stock market collapsed in 2001. ”

Whether your audience is in a sweaty basement club or nestled in a favourite armchair, good money has been paid, and attention has got to be grabbed if you are not to be heckled off the stage or find your novel discarded in favour of the latest volume of 'Fifty Shades of Whatever.' ”

It takes a long time to build democracy, to build freedom. ”

At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the 'Financial Times'. ”