Quotes About Wealth

Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.

Whatever your income level is, save as much as you can - up to 20 percent, but more if you can - and invest it. Put that into an IRA; put that into a brokerage account.

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

A lot of members of Congress are isolated. They tend to be affluent. They tend to have a lot of people doing things for them. So sometimes they don't understand what their constituents are feeling.

Middle-class economics is the simple idea that the economy performs best when the benefits of economic growth are broadly shared, not isolated to a fortunate few.

I come from a background where money has never been an issue.

Luxury is not a $4,000 T-shirt - that's just an expensive item, the same as if a can of Coca-Cola cost $5,000.

Fame itself... doesn't really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

I've always been fascinated with aristocracy. I'm really interested in the Ivy Leagues, the final clubs, all the really old-money families, the concept of old money.

You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.

For me, it just doesn't make sense that somebody could be out the same day or not have to serve a day in jail because they have better resources.

Being a Russian oligarch these days isn't easy. The best and brightest of them are in exile or in jail; others, after feasting on leverage during the commodities boom, now have tummies full of debt.

In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.

'Bridgerton' is something a bit like if Jane Austen met Gossip Girl' and maybe like 45 Shades of Grey.'

Some of my conversations with Jay, I'm not really saying much, just listening. It's really just learning. I'm trying to have Jay Z's money.

Wasn't nobody wearing diamond necklaces until Jay-Z jumped out there with them.

You think Jay-Z is going broke? LeBron is going broke? These guys have figured it out. They came from poor backgrounds, broken homes, and they figured out how to be businessmen. They become new aspirations.

Money brings jealousy and bitterness.

I know Jeff Bezos because I cater at his home.

Let's face it: most jerks trying to affect an ascot look like Thurston Howell III.

I literally have a private jet on call at all times.

I don't have a Rolls. I don't have a jet. That's not me.

I want to own the New York Jets, that's what I want. And I absolutely believe I am going to own the Jets.

Private jets cost a lot of money.