David Tepper Quotes

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

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

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.

The advantages of wealth are greatly exaggerated.

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

I have a feeling that life as a billionaire in Silicon Valley is very different than the life that you or I would lead. Unless you're a billionaire; I don't know your financial situation.

I'm ashamed to say that I'm from a very privileged background.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

My father grew up in a life of extreme privilege.

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

There's a small group of guys in hip-hop that really have money. The whole culture talks about money, but it's a small group that actually has it.

Ann Romney... looked to me like a corporate wife. The stories she told about struggles - eh! It's hard for me to believe. I mean, she's a very rich woman, and I know that, and America knows that.

Being a billionaire is sort of passe.

I have an enormously privileged position. I make a lot of money - a matter of public record - I have a huge amount of help, and I'm more in control of the day and what I do than someone working shifts on the checkout, or running the produce department in a supermarket.

It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.

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!

the rich are different only because people treat them as if they were.

I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag.

I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dating a few people who were from old money and a few from new money in my 20s, I just sort of became obsessed with this idea of clueless rich people.

I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

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

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

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