Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Spectacular Net Worth quotations
I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
True abundance isn't based on our net worth, it's based on our self-worth.
Your network is your net worth.
When you understand that your self-worth is not determined by your net-worth, then you'll have financial freedom
The cost of appearing with a bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me.
Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.
In 1985, the top five percent of the households - the wealthiest five percent - had net worth of $8 trillion - which is a lot. Today, after serial bubble after serial bubble, the top five per cent have net worth of $40 trillion. The top five percent have gained more wealth than the whole human race had created prior to 1980.
Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.
The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 per cent of the worlds population - 2.3 billion people.
..."And for God's sake, never get into the petty habit of measuring your self-worth against other people's net-worth. As Yogi Ramen preached: 'Every second you spend thinking about someone elses dreams you take time away from your own.'"
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Bargains are the holy grail of the true stockpicker.
The fact that 10 to 30 percent of our net worth is lost in a market sell-off is of little consequence. We see the latest correction not as a disaster but as an opportunity to acquire more shares at low prices. This is how great fortunes are made over time.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.
If you're lucky enough to have been rewarded in life to the degree that I have, there comes a point at which you have to decide whether to become a slave to your net worth by devoting the rest of your life to increasing it or to let what you've accumulated begin to serve you.
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.
Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune.
I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
Focus on all four of your net worth factors: increasing your income, increasing your savings, increasing your investment returns, and decreasing your cost of living by simplifying your lifestyle.
You can never solve a financial problem with money.
The only way for you to have a larger net worth is for you to go within to see why you are going without.
Bull markets are great, but they breed complacency.
Bear markets can be energizing. Instead of fretting over the decline in your net worth, think opportunistically about all those bargains - and the potential gains when, inevitably, a bull market returns.
When I looked at my life’s ledger I realized I was a very rich woman.
What I was experiencing was merely a temporary cash-flow problem. Finally, I came to an inner awareness that my personal net worth couldn’t possibly be determined by the size of my checking account balance. Neither can yours.
Your net worth is not the same thing as your self-worth. Your value is not based on your valuables.
Your mind, more than your actions, determines your net worth.
This is an amazingly sound place. We are more disaster-resistant than most other places. We haven't pushed it as hard as other people would have pushed it. I don't want to go back to Go. I've been to Go. A lot of our shareholders have a majority of their net worth in Berkshire, and they don't want to go back to Go either.
Most wealth is inconspicuous. The man down the street driving the nice car and living in the mansion could easily have greater debt and a lower net worth than the stealthy and wealthy plumber who drives a beat-up truck but seems to work only when he doesn't feel like fishing.
Multiply your age times your realized pretax annual household income from all sources except inheritances. Divide by ten. This, less any inherited wealth, is what your net worth should be.
Never get into the petty habit of measuring yourself worth against other people's net worth.
A strip club is one of the few places where two groups voluntarily come together who have such precipitous contrasts in net worth and familiarity with violence, each group with a head-and-shoulders edge in one category. The basic math of a tropical storm.
My net worth, that net works. Keep my shooters out in Brooklyn where the Nets work.
To double your net worth, double your self-worth.
Because you will never exceed the height of your self-image.
I just cannot understand why we can't have better schools.
That private schools are the only option for the kind of high-net-worth crowd, I think, is ridiculous. It should be a major initiative. It should be something we're all working on. We have to get our head out of the clouds.
The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified one wonderful business. With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least 10% of your net worth in that stock.
Measure your net worth not by how much you have, but by many people you impact.
Self worth and net worth are not the same.
To double your net worth, double your self-worth.
Because you will never exceed the height of your self-image.