Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.
The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.
Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.
I will give away at least half my wealth during my lifetime and after my death. In the meantime, I'll continue to grow my wealth as much as possible so that the amount I bequeath to charities and worthy causes can be as substantial as possible.
I had one idea that never changed in my mind - that you should use your wealth to help people.
Money can be taken away from you, by the IRS or by pistol. That's why I always measure riches in terms of wisdom. No one can ever take from you what you know.
For most people, their wealth accrues slowly, and at any given point they say, 'Okay, I should kick up my standard of living because now I've earned slightly more wealth.' I went from the dorm room to having a billion dollars.
How do you measure your value?
If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.
The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.