Quotes About Affluence

Prosperity is full of friends.

Don't judge me. Ethics and morality no longer exist in our world. It's a luxury of the past, afforded only to those who had a future.

I've made more money than I could spend in five lifetimes.

Rich means you have to stay there to maintain it.

The strategy is to target an affluent minority that will be shoved up against the wall and forced to pay for the education, healthcare and monthly expenses of Democratic voters. In this way, the Democrats seek to create a majority coalition of dependent voters who can put, and keep, the left in power.

The Obamas do not seem abashed to enjoy their newfound largesse. They now own a $2.5 million home in Chicago's Hyde Park and a mansion in Washington, D.C., worth $8 million. The D.C. property, in the exclusive Kalorama neighborhood, has 8,200 square feet, including nine bedrooms, a two-tiered flagstone terrace with a courtyard and parking space for 8–10 cars.

I have a billion dollars

Most people avoid you because they can't afford you.

If we stand passively by while the centre of each city becomes a hive of depravation, crime and hopelessness…if we become two people, the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear for the other…then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.

You have abundance all around you.

Only the rich, he said not a little bitterly, can afford to act like income does not matter.

You own your own island? Doesn't every Greek tycoon?

I just don't know why they're shooting at us. All we want to do is bring them democracy and white bread. Transplant the American dream. Freedom. Achievement. Hyperacidity. Affluence. Flatulence. Technology. Tension. The inalienable right to an early coronary sitting at your desk while plotting to stab your boss in the back.

there is an inverse relationship between income and closeness to parents.

He said it as if 'very rich' was a nationality; as perhaps it is.

Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire.(...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on stimulating demand. It is that it cannot continue without inventing new vices.

Rich folks can tolerate almost anything, but not rejection.

He missed being broke, because when he had nothing he owed nothing and most of his classmates were in the same boat. Now that he had an income he worried constantly about mortgages, the overhead, credit cards, and realizing the American dream of becoming affluent. Not wealthy, just affluent.

Broke a.. ni...'s can't roll with me and even rich ni...'s can't get a hold of me.

I've been rich and I've been poor, and rich is better.

It is an ironic fact that while half the world's population is dying as a result of diseases of poverty (largely starvation and infection) the other half is succumbing to diseases of affluence.

he was also abundantly rich:

Oh, I have the money. I've had it a long time.

If we become tow people-the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear of the other-then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.