Quotes About Affluence

Money," he muttered, "opens all doors." It

Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.

Brian leaned against the other side of Justus's pillar and tugged at his bow tie. "Your dad sure can spend some money," he said, raising his voice over the string quartet ten feet away in an alcove.

Good design should be available to everyone - and I do mean everyone. What I spent on the wheelchair I'm in could buy a small Mercedes. It's not only unfair to me; it's unfair to someone who's indigent but has the same needs. My goal is to make all objects affordable.

Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.

I could buy an island. I could buy a private jet - but I have NetJets.

I'm fortunate enough that my dad was well-off, my family was well-off, so we're able to go to private schools and stuff like that.

I was brought up in a world of privilege.

My father grew up in a life of extreme privilege.

What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence.

I'm always around people who want to drink very expensive champagne. But only when it's a celebration of success.

I tell myself every day I love my Jacuzzi, I love my marble floors, I love my high ceilings.

Neighborhood affluence and poverty have been shown repeatedly to influence many aspects of child and youth development, even after taking into account the characteristics of kids and their immediate families.

The belief that affluence can insulate is illusory.

In America we have Rockefellers for breakfast.

Strike had recently helped several wealthy young women rid themselves of City husbands who had become much less attractive to them since the financial crash. There was something appealing about restoring a husband to a wife, for a change.

Visible photons now, the ones that make up the light that people use to see by, they have a higher frequency and more energy. One of those can have quite a noticeable effect. The really affluent ones though, the big spenders, are the X-ray and gamma photons. Each one of those carries a lot of energy around with it and they can really make their presence felt on their surroundings if they choose to interact.

It is that wealth is inextricably associated with inequality. This is an insight that we get from a most unlikely source, the first of the great philosophers of capitalism, who wrote that "wherever there is great property, there is great inequality. . . . The affluence of the rich supposes the indigence of the many." It is Adam Smith speaking, not Karl Marx.11

He made them all wealthy beyond their dreams.

on the right, in what looked like the most expensive neighborhood since money was invented. To

Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings us today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle do

If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.

Affluence = abundant flow.

Abundance is the ability to do what you need to do, when you need to do it.