Norman Braman Quotes

It is not so much that I am a blue-blooded oligarch: I just don't feel like an oligarch.

In Singapore, there may be 50 old-money families, but you wouldn't know them to look at them.

The millionaires' Union

The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

'Downton Abbey' about upper-class posh people: of course it is.

I remember I was in grade school, the fourth grade, in a free reading period in the library. Someone in my class found a copy of the Forbes 400, a list of the richest people in America, and my dad's name was on it.

My father grew up in a life of extreme privilege.

People have always been fascinated by the foibles of the wealthy and privileged.

Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me.

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

It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year.

I don't want to shut the door and only be thought of as the dark girl.

I just don't want to give anybody a reason to label me as something I'm not.

Being a billionaire is sort of passe.

I think my whole career has been marked - or marred - by what people presume about me. But even that's fed back into the creativity. I'm saying that I'm about contradiction, that you can't put me into a box.

Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.

A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.

High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.

Lifestyles of the rich and famous. Well I'm rich and famous but if you got money, they know what you're name is. If you don't, you're nameless.

Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.

If you put a label on yourself, people will pigeonhole you.

Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate about it.

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.