John Caudwell Quotes

There's a very small percentage of people that take limos to school and have $2000 handbags - no one in my high school had that!

Members of the middle class do not have to worry about falling off $250,000 sailboats because they don't have $250,000 sailboats to fall off of.

We're not all Kim Kardashian. We can't have $15,000 from head to toe every single day.

I think there are many people on £70,000 who may well feel that their circumstances are such that they are not rich.

I don't have as much money as Rahm Emanuel.

He's a wealthy man, a very wealthy man. If you have a half a million-dollar purchase from Tiffany's, you're not a middle-class American.

It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

It is true that rich people can spend more money than middle class people, but there's this upper limit on what we can spend. I drive a very nice car, but it's only one car. I don't own a thousand, even though I earn a thousand times the median wage. I have a few jackets, not a few thousand.

Any girl that's got a $500,000 table and $5 shoes, I'm in love with.

Celebrities are nowhere as rich as some people think they are.

Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.

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.

Rich people in poor places want to show off their wealth. And their less affluent counterparts feel pressure to fake it, at least in public. Nobody wants the stigma of being thought poor.

The rich - they just live in another realm, really.

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

Who doesn't want to have a yacht? But I would prefer to invest my money in something else. But I love them. I just wouldn't buy one unless I had a lot, a lot of money.

I don't think that the rich should be attacked. There's nothing wrong in being rich.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

Americans overall may live better than medieval aristocrats could dream of, but that means nothing when oligarchs live in the neighborhood next door, flaunting their luxurious homes and top-quality private schools.

There aren't any poor cable hosts.

I've been in the Premier League for 10 years, more, and the money I've been paid is phenomenal compared to your average, everyday working man.

I was making $19,000 a year, and I thought I was rich.

People who are rich want to be richer, but what's the difference? The toys get different, that's all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It's all relative.

The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.

Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one.