Quotes About Affluence

In their friends people like to see a certain affluence in their ready smile They seldom care for warmth and truthfulness. So why not find your friends in song and nature?

A lot of members of Congress are isolated. They tend to be affluent. They tend to have a lot of people doing things for them. So sometimes they don't understand what their constituents are feeling.

I come from a background where money has never been an issue.

Private jets cost a lot of money.

Dad would often say "The next generation will follow anyone who will promise personal peace and affluence. If they are asked to make a choice between freedom and security they'll choose security. It will be the new fascism.

It is impossible to overdo luxury

Ready money works great cures.

Satisfying needs is the burden of the poor. The wealthy and the powerful can afford to indulge their wants and whims.

Only super-rich folk built fancy doors. You needed money coming out your ears before you spent it on a door.

Rich people, she decided, loved to stick with a theme.

As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain.

We had everything. We were young kids. We were driving cars our parents couldn't afford, living in big houses. For me to sit here and say, 'Oh my God, I didn't enjoy any of it' - no, I did. Of course I did.

When I was a young man, an individual with one million dollars was very rich. Anyone with a few millions more was considered richer than rich.

When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and famous rock stars, politicians, people who have tremendous power and affluence. It's not in my DNA, but certainly I have been exposed to it.

The measure of a country's prosperity should not be how many poor people drive cars, but how many affluent people use public transportation.

You are affluent when you buy what you want, do what you wish and don't give a thought to what it costs.

When you're rich, you want a Republican in office.

Bill Gates's story was never rags to riches, a Harvard friend once remarked, but riches to riches—though the initial affluence, embellished to include such fictions as a million-dollar trust fund, was now utterly insignificant.

There is nothing around me but money, money, money.

Today I am even richer.

Becoming wealthy is about accumulating wealth.

You will have money and all that money can buy.

Being rich means making everything inconvenient. Remember to attribute that when you quote it. T-A-L-T-O-S.

Being rich means making everything inconvenient. Remember to attribute that when you quote it. T-A-L-T-O-