Net Worth Quotes
- The page contains a collection of money quotes related to net worth from various public figures
- Many of the quotes discuss measuring self-worth versus financial net worth
- Several quotes reference billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Oprah Winfrey and their massive net worths
- A few quotes discuss using net worth to measure success or intelligence
- Tax policies are mentioned in relation to net worth by Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, and others
- Maintaining and growing one’s net worth over time is a theme discussed in multiple quotes
“Elon Musk just became the first person in the history of civilization to be worth $300 billion. If your salary was $1 million a year and you never spent any of it you would reach his current $302B net worth 302,000 years from now. He pays an effective tax rate of 3.3%” — Dan Price
“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones” — Benjamin Franklin
“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” — James Stewart
“I guess there are different ways to handle success. You can multiply it financially and use it to multiply your net worth. That’s always been very appealing to me” — Robert Redford
“The net worth of Jeff Bezos is about $200-billion. A stack of that many dollar bills would reach twice as high as his Blue Origins Rocket launch” — Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Everybody — by which I mean :not you — is getting rich off the Internet. We are constantly seeing stories in the media about young Internet entrepreneurs who look like they should be mowing lawns for spending money, except that they have the same net worth as Portugal” — Dave Barry
“We’re trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth” — J. B. Pritzker
“Your net worth can fluctuate, but your self-worth should only appreciate” — Chris Gardner
“There is a reason so many Americans choose to develop their net worth through homeownership: It is a proven wealth builder and savings compeller” — Matthew Desmond
“I know of at least two black women who are billionaires: Sheila Johnson, who co-founded BET, and Oprah Winfrey. And I know of hundreds of black women whose net worth is over $1 million” — A’Lelia Bundles
“My family and I have been blessed with good fortune in the world of business. We’ve created quite a net worth. My children, two boys, have more money than they will ever need, and they aren’t empire builders” — Eli Broad
“One journalist estimated my liquid net worth at $25 million. That’s pretty close. My houses are worth another $7 million” — Suze Orman
“Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth” — Sydney Madwed
“When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it” — Mark Victor Hansen
“Having a million-dollar net worth doesn’t make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn’t make you a fool” — Naval Ravikant
“You can never be guaranteed good roles because of an award, but I think your profile and net worth as a performer has to do with awards, unfortunately” — Minnie Driver
“I think the sooner that all of us in society stop accepting any type of bullying or harassment from other people – in spite of people’s social standing or net worth or whatever it is – the sooner it will stop” — Jason Priestley
“The habit of doing more than you are paid for can benefit any business that sells a product or service. Learning and understanding the principle of the mastermind philosophy of networking can increase the value of your network and your net worth” — Clay Clark
“Well, basically, this would be a one-time tax, 14.25 percent against people with a net worth of over 10 million, It would pay off in its entirety the national debt of $5.7 trillion, and you’d save $200 billion a year” — Donald Trump
“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” — Steve Jobs
“The only thing more embellished than Floyd Mayweather’s pay-per-view buys is Floyd Mayweather’s net worth. But his spending habits are real” — Chael Sonnen
“Liquidity is a good proxy for relative net worth. You can’t lie about cash, stocks, and bond values” — Mark Cuban
“Our net worth is ultimately defined not by dollars but rather by how well we serve others” — Paul Allen
“I keep anywhere between 5-10 percent of my net worth in venture ideas” — Kevin O’Leary
“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” — Howard Schultz
“I’m a strong believer in Intel’s stock. That’s a large amount of my net worth, and I’m passionate about Intel’s future” — Brian Krzanich
“If you want better behavior from bankers, then make their financial incentives more like those in the hedge-fund world – where managers have ‘skin in the game,’ and their net worth is tied to their long-term performance” — David Ignatius
“At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I’m picking the former, although I would not mind both” — Guy Kawasaki
“The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest of the world” — Thomas Piketty
“I’ve been the best in the world, and I believe my self worth, it’s more important to me than my net worth” — Henry Cejudo
“The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet” — Martin L. Gross
“All that hullabaloo about somebody’s net worth is just stupid, and it’s made my life a lot more complex and difficult” — Sam Walton
“All that hullabaloo about somebody’s net worth is just stupid, and it’s made my life a lot more complex and difficult” — Sam Walton
“Those things on the Internet that tell your net worth are wrong for pretty much everyone. When I started YouTube, I was pretty broke and it said $1 million then” — Jason Nash
“The #WealthTax is a two-cent per dollar tax on people with a net worth above $50 million – and a few cents more for the billionaires. This small tax would generate at least $3 trillion to help fund bold reforms in President Biden’s #BuildBackBetter agenda” — Elizabeth Warren
“I built a great company, one of the – some of the most iconic assets in the world, $10 billion of net worth, more than $10 billion of net worth, and frankly, I had a great time doing it” — Donald Trump
“We look at Donald Trump: his bottom line is interconnected to all kinds of financial interests that he refuses to disclose. They actually affect his net worth” — Robby Mook