Winston Marshall Quotes

My father grew up in a life of extreme privilege.

They're smart in Orange County. Smart and rich - just how I like 'em.

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.

You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.

I was brought up in a world of privilege.

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

I'm glad I was never an heiress.

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

What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking.

I realize I am very privileged. But there's a difference between being spoiled and privileged.

People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.

I'm not a trust-fund type.

People tend to assume that I come from a long line of castle-dwelling gentry and am made of money.

Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.

I think Mitt Romney is a good guy. He just has no idea of how good he has had it.

Imagine you're 24 years old, earning what I earn and having all that I have. Wouldn't you be the same as me?

Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon.

There was a commonality in a lot of the private school experiences that I had of children whose lives were not their own. They thought they were their own, but they were essentially gifted this life by their parents. So they were spending money; they were going on trips - I guess, in a way, it is their life, but they didn't earn it.

I come from money. I'm not going to deny that.

Rich clubs, where money doesn't matter... such clubs don't interest me.

I don't want to sit by the edge, like some other guys who have played their game. Earned money, have nice lifestyles, and don't say anything.

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.

I grew up in a lot of different places. I always saw the bigger picture. I was around rich kids with country houses and private jets. No disrespect to those people, but I never thought they were super geniuses. I couldn't see how I wasn't going to have those things, too.

I've had an enormously privileged working life.

Pretty women and rich men are rarely wrong.