Quotes About Affluence

The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more.

My favorite snack is caviar.

Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love

I don't love the word luxury because it feels Bougy to me.

I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills - I have received practically nothing from my marriages and relationships.

I like cars and houses. I have three houses - in Atlanta, in Kansas City and Houston.

I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag.

Even business leaders embraced President Johnson's Great Society social programs as the price for affluence. Government spending oiled a well-constructed economic machine — making it work better by adjusting consumer demand when needed and by bringing the poor into the system through education and a helping hand.

Older men were better companions, they were seasoned lovers, they knew the world, they knew themselves. Unlike younger men, they held their emotions in balance. They had read more, seen more, they were warmer, kinder, less boastful, more tolerant, less violent. They were more interesting, they could choose the wine. They had more money.

I'm from a big family; I have four younger siblings. My parents are still happily married together. I grew up moving around a lot, and my family was certainly not affluent.

People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions.

Money doesn't solve all problems, I thought. It just makes new ones.

It seems the less affluent you are, the more you are able to trust people, the more you are able to give others.

Magnanimity does not make you affluent but it buy you gems a affluent can't..

No matter how "right on" the upper-middle class was, no matter the social-justice proclamations of my former liberal, affluent urban "tribe," no one really expressed any objection to this unequal distribution of risk and harm.

You mean like money?

In affluent communities, where each member is keenly aware of his or her place within the Byzantine order, attracting the right friends is a blood sport. Chumming up to influential figures who are in a position to help can determine the course of an entire life.

I had more money than I could spend in million lifetimes.

I just count money, that's all I do. I count my millions.

About one-half of the millionaires in America don't live in upscale neighborhoods.

To many successful, achievement-oriented children of the affluent, accumulating money is not the superordinate goal. Instead, they want to be well educated, to be respected by their peers, and to occupy a high-status position. For

They became millionaires by budgeting and controlling expenses, and they maintain their affluent status the same way. Sometimes

Most people who become millionaires have confidence in their own abilities. They do not spend time worrying about whether or not their parents were wealthy. They do not believe that one must be born wealthy. Conversely, people of modest backgrounds who believe that only the wealthy produce millionaires are predetermined to remain non-affluent.

The median price paid by millionaires for their most recent acquisition was only $31,367.