These net worth quotes will inspire you. Net worth, the total wealth of an individual, company, or household, taking account of all financial assets and liabilities.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging net worth quotes, net worth sayings, and net worth proverbs.
Best Net Worth Quotes
- “… but the important thing is that when you do find one where you really do know what you are doing, you must buy in quantity…. Charlie and I have made a dozen or so very big decisions relative to net worth, although not as big as they should have been. And in each of those, we’ve known that we were almost certain to be right going in.” ~ Warren Buffett
- “As our net worth falls, so does our self-worth. Ironically, it’s when we don’t have it that we most feel we have to flaunt it.” ~ Suze Orman
- “I built a net worth of more than $10 billion. I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I’m very proud of the job I did.” ~ Donald Trump
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“Gates’s net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people).” ~ Ralph Nader
- “…”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.'”” ~ Robin Sharma
- “Never get into the petty habit of measuring yourself worth against other people’s net worth.” ~ Robin Sharma
- “Make it a policy to know your net worth to the penny.” ~ T. Harv Eker
- “Your network is your net worth.” ~ Porter Gale
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“Men make more money but have lower net worths.” ~ Warren Farrell
- “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.” ~ David Harvey
- “With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least ten per cent of your net worth in that stock” ~ Warren Buffett
- “My net worth, that net works. Keep my shooters out in Brooklyn where the Nets work.” ~ Nicki Minaj
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“Measure your net worth not by how much you have, but by many people you impact.” ~ Robin Sharma
- “You must remember the value that you add to others and not just what others have added to you. That’s how we build self-worth, which, in my opinion, is just as important as net worth.” ~ Suze Orman
- “Your network is your net worth. How do you value your network? Well, if you don’t value it, cultivate it, nurture it, it becomes worthless. If you do value it, it becomes priceless.” ~ Robert G. Allen
- “Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk.” ~ Warren Buffett
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“True abundance isn’t based on our net worth, it’s based on our self-worth.” ~ Gabrielle Bernstein
- “Don’t let your net worth determine your self worth.” ~ Rick Warren
- “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.” ~ Suze Orman
- “When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.” ~ Mark Victor Hansen
- “To double your net worth, double your self-worth. Because you will never exceed the height of your self-image.” ~ Robin Sharma
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“Your mind, more than your actions, determines your net worth.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
- “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.” ~ T. Harv Eker
- “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
- “The average net worth of the lower half of the distribution, representing 62 million households, was $11,000 in 2013. About one-fourth of these families reported zero wealth or negative net worth, and a significant fraction of those said they were “underwater” on their home mortgages, owing more than the value of the home. This $11,000 average is 50 percent lower than the average wealth of the lower half of families in 1989, adjusted for inflation.” ~ Janet Yellen
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“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “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 United State has a net worth against which our debt is a joke … we wrote in 2008 the United States is going to come out of this recession fast. The Europeans are going to fragment. The Chinese are going to be cremated. Why could we come out of it? Why has all economic theory been proven wrong? Because we’re rich and we could afford it.” ~ George Friedman
- “When I get asked the question, “Do I want to loan you money?” I want to know, how much do you earn? How much do you owe? What is your net worth? When people talk about countries for some reason they only ask how much did you earn and what’s your debt?” ~ George Friedman , Net worth quotes rich
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“I keep anywhere between 5-10 percent of my net worth in venture ideas.” ~ Kevin O’Leary
- “One observer commenting on security analysts over forty stated: “They know too many things that are no longer true.” As long as I am “on stage”, publishing a regular record and assuming responsibility for management of what amounts to virtually 100% of the net worth of many partners, I will never be able to put sustained effort into any non-BPL activity. If I am going to participate publicly. I can’t help being competitive. I know I don’t want to be totally occupied with out-pacing an investment rabbit all my life. The only way to slow down is to stop.” ~ Warren Buffett
- “I have already released my financials, which are massive, and, by the way, which showed a tremendous company. It’s over $10 billion in net worth that I have built with a very, very small starter loan years ago.” ~ Donald Trump
- “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.” ~ Marc Benioff
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“Facebook has revealed their estimated net worth – $96 billion. That’s almost as much money as businesses lose every year from their employees wasting time looking at Facebook.” ~ Jay Leno
- “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.” ~ George Will
- “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.” ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
- “Not yet have I found any better method to prosper during the future financial chaos, which is likely to last many years, than to keep your net worth in shares of those corporations that have proven to have the widest profit margins and the most rapidly increasing profits. Earning power is likely to continue to be valuable, especially if diversified among many nations.” ~ John Templeton
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“The people who ignite our imaginations in the next century will become the idea barons. Gray matter will be their real estate, and their net worth will be determined by what grows out of it.” ~ Joey Reiman
- “We rarely use much debt and, when we do, we attempt to structure it on a long-term fixed rate basis. We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet. This conservatism has penalized our results but it is the only behavior that leaves us comfortable, considering our fiduciary obligations to policyholders, depositors, lenders and the many equity holders who have committed unusually large portions of their net worth to our care.” ~ Warren Buffett
- “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.” ~ David Stockman
- “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.” ~ Peter Lynch
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“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
- “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.” ~ Tim Dorsey
- “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
- “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.” ~ George Will
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“Self worth and net worth are not the same.” ~ Rick Warren
- “The truth is that I’ve got all my net worth safely in Berkshire and I will never sell a share so there is no one more concerned about what happens after my death than I am.” ~ Warren Buffett
- “Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is twice theirs. You look at the prison system and who that’s chewing up.” ~ Randall Robinson
- “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
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“Your net worth is not the same thing as your self-worth. Your value is not based on your valuables.” ~ Rick Warren
- “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.” ~ Thomas J. Stanley
- “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.” ~ Charlie Munger
- “I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life changing difference. True or true? Yes or yes? I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about. When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it. In imagination, there’s no limitation. Don’t think it, ink it.” ~ Mark Victor Hansen
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“I am a financial planner, not a psychiatrist, but I do know that your net worth will rise to meet your self-worth only if your self-worth rises to accept what can be yours.” ~ Suze Orman
- “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.” ~ Loral Langemeier
- “Successful investors like stocks better when they’re going down. When you go to a department store or a supermarket, you like to buy merchandise on sale, but it doesn’t work that way in the stock market. In the stock market, people panic when stocks are going down, so they like them less when they should like them more. When prices go down, you shouldn’t panic, but it’s hard to control your emotions when you’re overextended, when you see your net worth drop in half and you worry that you won’t have enough money to pay for your kids’ college.” ~ Seth Klarman
- “The distribution of wealth is even more unequal than that of income. …The wealthiest 5% of American households held 54% of all wealth reported in the 1989 survey. Their share rose to 61% in 2010 and reached 63% in 2013. By contrast, the rest of those in the top half of the wealth distribution ?families that in 2013 had a net worth between $81,000 and $1.9 million ?held 43% of wealth in 1989 and only 36% in 2013.” ~ Janet Yellen
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“When you understand that your self-worth is not determined by your net-worth, then you’ll have financial freedom” ~ Suze Orman
- “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.” ~ Peter Lynch
- “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.” ~ Warren Buffett
- “My net worth is the market value of holdings less the tax payable upon sale. The liability is just as real as the asset unless the value of the asset declines (ouch), the asset is given away (no comment), or I die with it. The latter course of action would appear to at least border on a Pyrrhic victory.” ~ Warren Buffett
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“Gates’s net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people).” ~ Ralph Nader
- “Wages for the ninety-nine percent have gone down, steadily, since 2008. They’ve gone down especially for the bottom twenty-five percent of the population. This means that they’ve gone down especially for Blacks and Hispanics and other blue-collar workers. Their net worth has actually turned negative, and they don’t have enough money to get by.” ~ Michael Hudson
- “To save the banks from making losses that would wipe out their net worth, you’ll have to get rid of Social Security. It means that you’ll essentially have to abolish government and turn it over to the banking system to run, with an idea that the role of governments is to extract income from the economy to pay to the bondholders and the banks.” ~ Michael Hudson
- “I have already released my financials, which are massive, and, by the way, which showed a tremendous company. It’s over $10 billion in net worth that I have built with a very, very small starter loan years ago.” ~ Donald Trump
