Quotes About Affluence

I mean, being sweet is one thing, but having a little loot is another. I like the combination.

You've got to be rich to have a swing like that.

The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of awakening intelligent interest in the visitor with the growth of collections that was associated with empire and middle-class affluence. Attendance at museums was as much associated with moral improvement as with explanation of the human or natural world.

The more television people watch, the more they overestimate the affluence of other people. And the lower they rate their own relative income. The result is that they are less happy.

Time is exactly what we do not have. What decreases in a culture of affluence is precisely and strangely time—along with wisdom and friendship. These are the very things that the human heart was created for, that the human heart feeds on and lives for. No wonder we are producing so many depressed, unhealthy and even violent people, while also leaving a huge carbon footprint on this poor planet.

I was raised to be a rich kid, only without the complication of money.

That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.

Becoming wealthy is about accumulating wealth.

Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.

And that new Cadillac she came up in must have cost a bundle. Ten, twelve thousand, at least. Maybe more.

If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.

Greatness is in influence, and not necessarily in affluence. It is not achieved by being a 'paper millionaire', but by being a 'people millionaire'.

Wealth is a byproduct of positive, wealth-oriented thoughts.

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

Day by day, month by month, doubt by doubt, law and order became fascism; education, constraint; work, alienation; revolution, mere sport; leisure, a privilege of class; marijuana, a harmless weed; family, a stifling hothouse; affluence, oppression; success, a social disease; sex, an innocent pastime; youth, a permanent tribunal; maturity, the new senility; discipline, an attack on personality; Christianity... and the West... and white skin...

We are liberal and tolerant because we are prosperous.

Simple people with less education, sophistication, social ties, and professional obligations seem in general to have somewhat less difficulty in facing this final crisis than people of affluence who lose a great deal more in terms of material luxuries, comfort, and number of interpersonal relationships.

That's right, you never cared about money, Billy, Olive said. Certainly not to the extent that those of us who forgot to be born into wealthy families care about it.

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.

I photograph wealth.

Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.

I'm not against wealth; I just think everybody should have it, same as health.