Quotes About Wealth

When I left the state of Maine for college, I met my first really rich friends, and I discovered summer could be a verb.

The Badals have grown richer while Punjab is on the verge of bankruptcy.

If you like looking at 'Starry Night' or water lilies or whatever, then why does it matter if it's an original? If the artist is still alive, and you want to support them, I get it. But if you want some famous dead guy's work, that's just a way for rich people to show off. It's the upper-class version of driving a giant Hummer.

Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.

was a full-service marina for the terminally rich, the kind of place where they cleaned and polished your bowline when you brought the boat in.

That was almost certainly true—but then, Joe Acosta was a rich and powerful man, and my sister was a tough and stubborn woman, and a meeting of two such people would probably go a lot smoother if at least one person present had just a tiny smidgen of tact. Deborah had never had any; she probably couldn't even spell it. And judging from his reputation, Joe Acosta was the kind of man who would buy tact if he ever needed any. So that left me. I

I went to bed and slid immediately into sleep, visions of dollar bills dancing in my head. They were all waving good-bye. It

I watched him go for a second, marveling that such a truly awkward performance came so easily to such an apparently perfect man. It was so odd that for a moment I thought it had to be deliberate—perhaps a way to change the subject? Could he really be that uncomfortable talking about his affluent ways? Or was he hiding something even more nefarious than wealth?

But on the plus side, I was living like a millionaire without paying higher taxes, and I got to hang out with a Real Live Hollywood Star and eat haute cuisine. Of

I like watches from that era. Back then a watch was power. Not many people could afford one. The owner of a watch was a man who controlled time...chains and fobs were invented so that even when a man carried a watch in his pocket, you could still see he owned one

modest mansion

It pains me to think how much you are worth now. I can't tell you that. If you can count it, you haven't got any.

If you've struck gold, why go in search of brass?

Steve mellon had told him that love was for poor suckers, and Richard had written on his steamed-up shaving mirror that morning, 'I must be penniless.

you take care of the pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.

Jeffrey Archer

thousand-dollar bills.

on Fifth Avenue

The only difference between a pirate and a peer is who you divide the spoils with.

Rockefeller had had his own private station built fifty feet below the Waldorf-Astoria to save him traveling the eight blocks to Grand Central

Best Kept Secret Be Careful What You Wish For Mightier than the Sword Cometh the Hour This Was a Man NOVELS Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less Shall We Tell the President? Kane and Abel The Prodigal Daughter First Among Equals A Matter of Honour As the Crow Flies Honour Among Thieves

politics is nothing more than a rich man's hobby.

One day,' he promised the ceiling, 'I am going to buy your goddamn bank and make you want to jump out of a hotel bedroom on the twelfth floor.

Whatever the cause, the United States is privately rich but socially poor. It caters to the pursuit of wealth but pays scant attention to those left behind. And though American culture emphasizes individualism and the pursuit of individual wealth perhaps more than any other society, that focus does not lead to greater happiness. Of