Quotes About Wealth

Like many wealthy Americans, he was imbued with a sense of civic responsibility

You know the trouble with this part of the world? It's full of retired bankers and lawyers with too much time on their hands.

saw it in the papers. When he took that fifty grand off Diana Cowper, it looks like he was ripping her off.' 'Maybe she knew something about him. It could have given him a reason to kill her.

Judith set up Colin with his chambers and she got him into the States. It's her house they live in and her wealth that keeps their three children in private school. And God help him if he steps out of line. She's the one who wears the trousers in that relationship.

and it wasn't even as if he did anything to deserve it. He just inherited it from his father and his father before him. This is 1955, for heaven's sake. Not the Middle Ages! Of course, it doesn't help having the bloody Tories still in power but you'd have thought we'd have moved away from the days when people were given wealth and power simply because of an accident of birth.

was in his mid-thirties, with the easy confidence that comes from either inherited wealth or early success, a completely different man to the one I had met in Euston. Could it be that he changed his persona depending on the client he found himself with, that the richer and more established they were, the more suave and self-confident he became?

She was the woman who had been left £100,000 in Richard Pryce's will. So she was part of the triangle that included Pryce and Lockwood! That had to mean something.

a great mansion with stone figures on the terrace and seven figures in the price.

And as for that house of his, you know he spent five million quid building it? How he got planning permission right on the edge of the sea, and his own private pillbox, is anyone's guess.

The houses round here don't have numbers. They're too fucking posh for that.

That's what's wrong with this country. You've got food banks in the north and down here in Hampstead there are people who don't think twice about spending a fortune on a fucking bottle of wine. It doesn't make sense.

She never murdered anyone. She didn't want to destroy the world. But I think there's another sort of evil that is often overlooked ... and it is this. Granny never did anything to help anyone else. She was rich and healthy (she lived into her nineties) but she was utterly selfish and complained all the time. ... As far as I know, she never tried to make anyone happy ... and if you ask me, evil is a perfectly reasonable description of someone like that.

wanted to remind myself just how terrible it was: the awful language, the use of clichés, its near-pornographic relish. The books must have made Dawn Adams a ton of money, and as I'd learned from my time with Hawthorne, money and murder have a way of going hand in hand.

He drew a picture of me in court as a woman entirely dependent on the financial acumen of my husband, even though said husband was a drunk and a womaniser who had inherited all his wealth from his equally squalid father.

This is 1955, for heaven's sake. Not the Middle Ages! Of course, it doesn't help having the bloody Tories still in power but you'd have thought we'd have moved away from the days when people were given wealth and power simply because of an accident of birth.

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

Fast money? Would you rather get boardwalk on your first roll or would you rather win the game of monopoly?

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.

The USA — its future as a nation and as a political, social, economic, and moral ideal — is now in the control of a few powerful individuals, groups, institutions, and nations. Those in control have shown little interest or concern for the nation and its citizens. They are the new robber barons of the old Gilded Age. And,

People who are privileged can take more risks because of that safety shield that privilege provides.

It is free enterprise and the determination to succeed which generates opportunity and wealth for our society, and in doing so provides the money we need to deliver the high quality public services that we all want.

As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.

Economic growth is very important, but it is not the only thing, and it must be accompanied by sharing with those who are left behind, through effective social services and provision.

I think when my parents were together, my family was too prosperous for our psychological health. Not that they were that rich, but I feel that usually inherited wealth causes psychological problems.