Quotes About Affluence

Middle-class and more affluent blacks are also disproportionately the targets of subprime mortgage loans, paying much higher rates of interest than comparable white borrowers, and are subjected, according to the available evidence, to racial profiling of all types.

All around us we see a level of individual wealth unequaled since the early years of the 20th century.

Shanghai—the term denotes people who have gathered together into affluent subdivisions of suburbs and cities and fondly suppose themselves functionally independent of the rest of society.

Money equals freedom.

When affluent people speak of the underprivileged, they rarely thank their lucky stars that they are privileged, let alone consider that they might be overprivileged. Privilege is their blind spot.7 It is invisible and they don't think twice about it; they justify their social position as something they are entitled to. In one way or another, all of us are blind to whatever privileges life has handed us, even if those privileges are temporary.

I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.

This is an impressive crowd—the haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elite; I call you my base.

Influence or affluence; take your choice.

The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. —LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH

But you know, if you live an affluent lifestyle, there are all types of trappings that are there that you have to be cognizant of, and you've got to try and communicate freely and gain understanding about and then keep moving on, because you know, sometimes lifestyles are chosen for us as opposed to us choosing them.

Labor is the source of subsistence, capital is the source of affluence. My idea is to make everyone a capitalist, and therefore, financially secure.

Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence.

I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.

Their grandchildren will grow up so middle-class and affluent that the idea of deprivation will have no place in their lives, will seem to belong not to their country, but a much poorer neighbour like Cambodia or Bangladesh.

Pero es que los ricos aunque estén muy enamorados, son muy prudentes en lo relativo a sus riquezas.

At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.

It's always possible to spend more money.

He loved her for what she was - rich. He worshiped the ground her family struck oil on.

I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich.

Look, all I've got is one-and-a-half quadrillion dollars