Quotes About Affluence

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD once wrote, "The rich are different from you and me," to which Hemingway famously replied, "Yes, they have more money.

I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.

I'm not rich but I've made a little money in my time.

W. Bush's life is a case study in the insidious affirmative action for the rich.

Rich people never forget they are rich...

Eh, my dear fellow, order is wealth

depressed populations don't have the time or energy to spare. The affluent populations, which should have been their help, didn't, as far as could be discovered, read, either—they merely bought books and devoured them, but not in order to learn: in order to learn new attitudes.

And they didn't even read; depressed populations don't have the time or energy to spare. The affluent populations, which should have been their help, didn't, as far as could be discovered, read, either—they merely bought books and devoured them, but not in order to learn: in order to learn new attitudes.

And they didn't even read; depressed populations don't have the time or energy to spare. The affluent populations, which should have been their help, didn't as far as could be discovered, read, either--they merely bought books and devoured them, but not in order to learn: in order to learn new attitudes.

It's a huge headache - the more money you have, the more hassles. I find money very uncomfortable.

Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.

I want kids to be able to escape failing schools that trap them. And it's an unequal trapping of children. The most affluent find a way to escape. They move to a great suburban district or send their kid to a private school. The people who are trapped in the worst schools that have been terrible often for half a century? Those are the poorest kids.

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which abort technology's affluence producing potential.

One who is wise is rich, one who is virtuous is wealthy, one who is happy is affluent, and one who is loving is prosperous.

Wisdom in poverty is better than folly in affluence.

Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon.

I come from a very affluent family. I have been educated in one of the finest institutions of the world. Money was never a factor in my life: by the grace of God, I was blessed with a golden spoon.

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off.

In the annals of the rich and miserable, Christina Onassis stands out, if only because she was so rich and so miserable.

I am the rich man's guru.

The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself.

The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.

Southampton is for sporting rich; Bridgehampton is for nearly rich; East Hampton is for the very rich.