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The Quotable Billionaire
Advice and Reflections From and For the Real, Former, Almost, and Wanna-Be Super-Rich . . . and Others
Steven D. Price
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The Quotable Billionaire
Advice and Reflections From and For the Real, Former, Almost, and Wanna-Be Super-Rich . . . and Others
Steven D. Price
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What the super-rich and others have to say about money in these pages is sometimes enlightening, sometimes profound, often entertaining, and always revealing. Topics include wealth ("If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man."āJ. Paul Getty); investing ("Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years."āWarren Buffett); success ("The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well."āJohn D. Rockefeller); and leadership ("The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks."āRupert Murdoch). In addition are proverbs, quips, and other commentary on all aspects of having a fortune.
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WEALTH: IN THE ABSTRACT AND IN THE CONCRETE
Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.
āJ. P. Morgan
I believe that the power to make money is a gift from God.
āJohn D. Rockefeller
Iām not a paranoid deranged millionaire.
Goddammit, Iām a billionaire.
āHoward Hughes
If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man.
āJ. Paul Getty
Thereās a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
āJohn Kenneth Galbraith, regarding political candidate H. Ross Perot
Loco Dempsey: You donāt think heās a little old?
Schatze Page: Wealthy men are never old.
āfrom the film How to Marry a Millionaire
It isnāt necessary to be rich and famous to be happy.
Itās only necessary to be rich.
āAlan Alda
In suggesting gifts, money is appropriate, and one size fits all.
āWilliam Handolph Hearst
Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.
āCharles V
A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything.
āEcclesiastes 10:19
This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of Wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and after doing so to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community.
āAndrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth
The rich are not born sceptical or cynical.
They are made that way by events, circumstances.
āJ. Paul Getty
Look at all the billionaires. If I know 15 billionaires, I know 13 unhappy people.
āRussell Simmons
Some people on the [Forbes] list are in their thirties and are worth at least $10 billion. But itās good to be on the list.
āRonald Lauder
I have been insane on the subject of moneymaking all my life.
āCornelius Vanderbilt
Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
āWarren Buffett
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for moneyās sake.
āJohn D. Rockefeller
If youāve literally been worrying, āWill the money last until the end of the week?ā you will never, ever complain about having money.
āJ. K. Rowling
All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.
āRay Kroc
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
āAndrew Carnegie
Money is like water. Block its flow and it will stagnate.
āMohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Becoming wealthy is like playing Monopoly . . . the person who can accumulate the most assets wins the game.
āNoel Whittaker
Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.
āGeorge Clason
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
āRalph Waldo Emerson
I have a million dollars in the stock market, because if I lose a million dollars, I donāt personally care.
āSuze Orman
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
āthe character Mr. Mikawber, in Charles Dickensās David Copperfield
Dollars have never been known to produce character, and character will never be produced by money.
āW. K. Kellogg
Money is just a way of keeping score.
āH. L. Hunt
A billion dollars isnāt what it used to be.
āNelson Bunker Hunt
No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.
āMichael Pritchard
Pola Debevoise: I want to marry Rockefeller.
Schatze Page: Which one?
Pola Debevoise: I donāt care.
āfrom the film How to Marry a Mi...