Dido Harding Quotes

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He frivols through the livelong day, He knows not Poverty, her pinch. His lot seems light, his heart seems gay; He has a cinch. Yet though my lamp burns low and dim, Though I must slave for livelihood- Think you that I would change with him? You bet I would!

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

Being outside the candy store looking in is the state of people today. Whether you're in a Pakistani village watching somebody in a car drive by, or you're in the city of Lahore going to a restaurant and seeing somebody with a security entourage coming in... you're exposed to people with more.

It's easy for the thought-leader and executive classes to embrace a 'do what you love and love what you do' philosophy when they are wealthy enough to work hard only voluntarily, and when their jobs grant them status.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

I wasn't born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.

I'm just a regular upper-middle-class guy who happens to be a billionaire.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

I've always been interested in this idea of a privileged life, probably because it's something I hadn't seen much of.

Rich is not better.

In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.

I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

I feel so fortunate and lucky I don't have to be a waitress or a bartender or a personal trainer.

It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.

The physical lot of … workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's school education was assured by the government-operated schools: in addition, they had, for intellectual or emotional stimulus and diversion, the radio and the television. But the work itself was no longer as various, as interesting, or as sustaining to the personality...

Nobody in America lives at the survival level, Most people in the world would love to live the way poor Americans live.

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

Economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.

one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Wealth is a form of power in our society. With great power comes great responsibility. If you have too much wealth, ipso facto, you have too much power -- therefore you have too much responsibility -- and you're a kind of dictator.