Quotes About Wealth

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.

With 'Downton Abbey,' you're always stuck in one stately home.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there. We have 300 million poor in India.

Over time, my students have gotten richer and more educated.

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

If I had all the money in the world, I don't think I'd want to be in the studio for longer.

I used almost every penny I ever made to build recording studios in every city I lived in. I don't have much to show for all the TV money except a lot of musical gear and a lot of songs.

When you go back to the days when I was studying how to paint, some of the things that excited me most was to go into the Huntington Library and Gardens and to see the amazing pictures of the landed gentry.

With the computer and stuff, the difference between a rich guy and a poor guy, to me, is nothing. Because I don't like big houses, I don't drive a car, so you know, I just live in a small apartment and I have my computer, which is really cool.

I'm not materialistic. I love clothes and all that stuff, but I don't need it to live.

The fact that rich people get free stuff and poor people have to pay, it's backwards.

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while the people are starving. But what elitists don't get is that for poor people, the church is their own mansion. Nightclubs fill the same function.

I don't even know how much money I've spent on all of this stuff... Just in plates and bars alone, it's literally a ridiculous amount of money I've spent on those. And to me it doesn't matter. It's money that I've gladly spent.

I have two quite large houses, and every cupboard and drawer is stuffed with books.

In every stump speech I give, I speak about the fact that people who dream and achieve enormous success do not make us poorer - they make us better off.

I love food: biscuits and gravy, cheese grits, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken-fried steak with white gravy... but my favorite dish is my wife's beanie weenie cornbread casserole. It's so good. It sounds stupid, but if you eat it, it's heaven. Of course, it's only something you can eat if you've got a lot of money.

I want to figure out a way to not be stupid with money, then make a whole bunch of it, then I want to move to Outer Mongolia. I want to milk a yak. Maybe I'll just settle for a cow. Can you milk a bison?

I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.

If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.

If I can make a dollar, I certainly am not stupid.

I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.

I did all the stupid things you'd expect from a 21-year-old kid with money.

Having more money allows you to play in a certain way, but that's the beauty of the Premier League - there are so many different styles.