Quotes About Affluence

Money makes a man mirthful.

We live in a time of unprecedented abundance.

Sleep came to them, quick and easy, like money to millionaires.

The Setting and the People: Ohio "I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where a profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property."?Alexis de Tocqueville

Everything in it screamed money.

The floods had devastated the lower reaches of the town, home to the poorer families who were less likely to make a noise about it. Or at least have that noise listened to. In the more affluent parts of town, life had already pretty much returned to normal.

Money didn't buy you happiness, she reflected afterward, but it certainly provided you with better places to be miserable.

Affluence isn't affluence at all. Hong Kong is the benchmark; everybody else's affluence is mere tat. Until you've experienced that perfume-washed air as polarized glass doors embrace you into a luxury hotel's plush interior, you've only had a dud replica of the real thing.

Money is applause.

It was a great sage of Islam, ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), who saw that as a society becomes affluent it becomes more individualistic. It loses what he called its asabiyah, its social cohesion. It then becomes prey to the 'desert dwellers', those who shun the luxuries of the city and are prepared for self-sacrifice in war.

Jeremy Beaumont-Jones had been lucky enough to be born rich. He wasn't in the mad oligarch class but once you're past a certain point, the sheer weight of your money sucks in wealth like a financial singularity. If you're sensible enough not to blow it on race horses, cocaine or musical theatre, then it becomes a perpetual-motion money making machine.

what could be more obvious than the fact that they did not know what suffering was, that if they suffered from anything it was precisely this lack of suffering, a kind of neuropathy that came from too much ease, too much sugar, a kind of existential gout?

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

I grew up in an upper-income household, in an accepting environment, and with incredible educational opportunities.

Such huge money has been made in China - it can be hundreds of millions in a year - and there's a need to validate it by showing what they can buy and how much of it.

Money is wasted on the rich.

Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich.

She was clearly rich. Her handbag was too plain to be anything but incredibly expensive.

Well, rich people need stuff to buy, and socks are probably as good as anything.

Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich. We

Dan shrugged. "Maybe when you're rich, shopping takes longer, since you get to buy more stuff.

Being rich is the cause of all their problems," a cousin of lesser means had told others in the family. "Claire and Dorothea are ill because they can afford to be ill.

Claire and Dorothea are ill because they can afford to be ill.

The boom for luxury goods is unending. There are people who never have to worry about whether they can afford something they like. In one part of the world or another there will always be someone with money to spend on luxury.