A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
“Is he then an unhappy man?” “Ah, a rich man…”
It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why they use their wealth so poorly, and why they don’t just get rid of it when they recognize that it is the cause of their unhappiness.
When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters but telegrams.
The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.
Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.
— Aristotle Onassis
Wealth
I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.
Do not imagine that it is less an accident by which you find yourself master of the wealth which you possess, than that by which this man found himself king.
Sum-totally, we find that the physical constituent of wealth-energy-cannot decrease and that the metaphysical constituent-know-how-can only increase. This is to say that everytime we use our wealth it increases.
— Buckminster Fuller
Business