Quotes About Affluence

When you're rich, you don't write checks. Straight cash, homey.

Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived.

The Abundance Book, by John Randolph Price; The Trick to Money Is Having Some, by Stuart Wilde; and The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity, by Catherine Ponder. These three books are excellent tools for developing a prosperity consciousness so that you can be free of money worries forever.

Bitch I got money to blow, gettin it in. Lettin these bills fall over your skin.

A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.

Survival is something only the rich take lightly

American Express? . . . That'll do nicely, sir.

Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.

I'm not a tycoon or anything like that. Does my property amount to several million dollars? Of course it does.

For centuries, prosperity has been easy to define in material terms. At a personal level, by how much one earns; how much one has.

Prosperity is full of friends.

She's got an indiscreet voice,' I remarked. 'It's full of——' I hesitated. 'Her voice is full of money,' he said suddenly.

Her voice is full of money

so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbour's lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires

It was full of money—that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it…. High in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl….

wherever people played polo and were rich together.

I'm filthy rich!

I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.

My kids are being raised in a much more affluent environment than was mine. My wife and I talk about that all the time because neither of us had this kind of experience.

Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.

You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The amount of wealth tends to be less.

When monogamy is found in subsistence-level cultures, Alexander calls it "ecologically imposed." When it appears in more affluent, more stratified cultures, he calls it "socially imposed."3 The question is why society imposed it.

I know he's rich. He knows he's rich, too.

He would compensate for his long absence by extravagant shows of generosity with his children.