Quotes About Wealth

I don't remember going to school with anyone who had a Mercedes dealership.

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

In Vanity Fair, everyone messes up.

We're not, obviously, as rich as Metallic, but we don't have to worry about money.

I really like 'Million Dollar Listing Miami.'

I never wanted to be Michael Jordan, although I would like to trade bank accounts.

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class.

Income inequality has become so prevalent in the U.S. that examples of its negative impact on the middle class are as common as Kanye West saying something cringeworthy in the media.

There is no such thing as a black middle class.

Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.

There's no such thing as median income; there's a curve, and it really matters what side of the curve you're on. There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.

You can only choose between rich and poor. The middle class is gone.

My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures.

The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.

The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.

I'm from a middle class family, but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people.

Members of the middle class do not have to worry about falling off $250,000 sailboats because they don't have $250,000 sailboats to fall off of.

We should not chip away at the protections that have built the largest economy and the largest middle class in the world.

The word midget makes me money.

If you make money, you might not make meaning.

I'm not a Mike Bloomberg billionaire.

After the sale of Celtel, I really wanted to give the money back, and I had a number of choices - to go and buy masses of blankets and baby milk or to go into Darfur or Congo. That would have been very nice actually, but it's just like an aspirin: it doesn't deal with the problem.