The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag.
I never wanted to be on any billionaires list. I never define myself by net worth. I always try to define myself by my values.
If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
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.
I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
Many people aren't rich because they're liars.
People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.
Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.
In the Eisenhower era, when earnings over $400,000 were subject to 91 percent taxes and the world was a smaller place, you could count the truly wealthy on one hand: Getty, Dupont, Mellon, Rockefeller, though even those fortunes were being dispersed to children as the old robber barons died off.
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.
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