Quotes About Affluence

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

With our dramas, we have a lot of shows that feature very well-to-do, well-educated people who are driving very nice cars and living in extremely nice places.

I came from an affluent family, am well-known and well-read.

Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to have impoverished neighborhoods nearby, but the poor people got chased out by young singles living in group homes, hipsters, and urban homesteading gay couples.

I come from money. I'm not going to deny that.

My husband and I own half a dozen iPods, a Mac desktop, and four Mac laptops. We're clearly fans of Mr. Jobs' work.

I don't think because you have money you have taste... Education and money - this is quite rare. No?

I am quite amazed how, when people earn lots of money, they think they have to spend it on things that give them access to the club constituted by the people who are in their tax bracket.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don't have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don't know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don't know how much I pay in taxes.

Being rich now means having enough money that you don't have to encounter anyone who isn't.

The richest 5 percent of Americans spend only about half of what they earn, which isn't surprising. Being rich means you've got just about everything you want and need.

the world had an abundance of money.

Why, the man is rich as wedding-cake.

Health is wealth but wealth is not health

In imagery, Lakshmi is often shown beside Ganesha, even though traditionally Lakshmi and Ganesha belong to rival religious sects, the Vaishnavas and the Shaivas. Together, Lakshmi and Ganesha evoke affluence and abundance. Poster art of Lakshmi with Ganesha

People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.

Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don't think life has very much meaning.

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.

Life sure is easier when you're rich." "And a natural born charmer. Don't forget that part." "How could I?" she retorted. "It's the only thing we have in common.

The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.

If you can afford it, buy it. Always offer your friends the best that you can and have it in prodigious abundance.

The very rich are different from you and me." And how some one had said to Julian, Yes, they have more money.

He was in despair. What about? Nothing. How do you know it was nothing? He has plenty of money.

Gentlemen prefer bonds.