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Quotes About Affluence

The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.
~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
A man who has the loads of money can easily attract to have a lot of honey.
~ Anuj Somany
Everyone is just alone even if this fact is unknown to anyone, but someone who has made a lot of wealth is often most lonely as none can deny that almost all people are around him for his money only.
~ Anuj Somany
Healthy people are solely wealthy, a lot of money just makes a person appear only affluent.
~ Anuj Somany
Just as money can't buy happiness, neither can it buy time affluence.
~ Arianna Huffington
I do not think of myself as having arrived at any degree of achievement commensurate with my potential talent and capacity for work. I am just one among the many who have tried to approximate some measure of integrity in a world that is a sorry bewilderment of wretchedness and affluence.
~ Art Young
I love my Michael Kors, Ralph Lauren, Carolina Herrera, Vera Wang. I've grown up with them.
~ Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
I've got three Bentleys, a couple of Mercs, and two Range Rovers.
~ David Haye
Rich Gang is a rich look.
~ Birdman
The richest Indonesians have maybe $5 billion. Bill Gates has $50 billion.
~ Ciputra
I'm buying everything on the Gold Coast.
~ Bernard Tomic
When someone has enough money, logistics can be worked out in no time.
~ Gail Godwin
For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.
~ Samuel Adams
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
~ John Lothrop Motley
The waiters' eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet – paté, Whitstable oysters, a sole, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes.
~ S. J. Perelman
He is so rich, he has no room to shit.
~ Marcus Aurelius
They were new money, without a doubt: so new it shrieked. Their clothes looked as it they'd covered themselves in glue, then rolled around in hundred-dollar bills.
~ Margaret Atwood
My mother said Aunt Pauline meant kindly but had standards, which were all very well for those that could afford them.
~ Margaret Atwood
They buy 'em here 'cause it's cheaper. You know how rich people are. Money sticks to their hands, 'cause it's the most important thing in the world to 'em.
~ Margaret Coel
He was constantly, pathologically, insanely busy. That's how he afforded the wine.
~ Anne Fadiman
What had really given birth to the Romantic Movement in the history of human ideas was affluence—an increase in the number of people who had plenty enough to eat, enough education to read and write, and time to ruminate on their own personal emotions.
~ Anne Rice
As affluence and urbanization rise in a society, rates of depression and suicide tend to go up rather than down.
~ Sebastian Junger
Western society is so unappealing. On a material level, it is clearly more comfortable and protected from the hardships of the natural world. But, as societies become more affluent they tend to require more, rather than less, time and commitment by the individual, and it's possible that many people feel that affluence and safety simply aren't a good trade for freedom.
~ Sebastian Junger
As affluence and urbanization rise in a society, rates of depression and suicide tend to go up rather than down. Rather than buffering people from clinical depression, increased wealth in a society seems to foster it. Suicide
~ Sebastian Junger