Affluence Quotes

There's nothing - I've bought everything I want. I don't like yachts or anything; you know, I'm not a yacht person, and I've got pretty much the nicest plane I'd want to have.

New York is a city where it's particularly hard to be poor, not only because everything costs twice as much as it does elsewhere but because over-the-top affluence is part of its identity.

At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.

I care not how affluent some may be, provided that none be miserable in consequence of it.

Why was it, if you were a wealthy European industrialist in the 19th century, you would also most likely be a Protestant. There had been a shift of economic power from Catholic Countries like Italy and Spain towards Protestant countries like England and Germany? It seemed as if there were some kind of connection between the content of your faith—the form of your worship and your economic fortunes… What was it about Protestantism that made people not only work harder but save and accumulate capital?

This one is for the boys in the polos Entrepreneur niggas & the moguls

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.

Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.

In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing to which cities have become deserted and the land has ceased to yield fruit, although there have neither been continuous wars nor epidemics...For as men had fallen into such a state of pretentiousness, avarice, and indolence that they did not wish to marry, or if they married to rear the children born to them, or at most as a rule but one or two of them, so as to leave these in affluence and bring them up to waste their substance, the evil rapidly and insensibly grew.

Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.

The boom is getting boomier.

I make more money in a week than my father made in a year.

Prosperity knits a man to the world.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

I come from a background where money has never been an issue.

If I get home, I'll be so stinking rich, I'll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.

For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?

I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.

A lot of members of Congress are isolated. They tend to be affluent. They tend to have a lot of people doing things for them. So sometimes they don't understand what their constituents are feeling.

Well, I like cars. Just because you have two it doesn't make you flash.

I know that money speaks more loudly than need.

It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization is as odious as it is unjust. It is absolutely the opposite of what it should be, and it is necessary that a revolution should be made in it. The contrast of affluence and wretchedness continually meeting and offending the eye, is like dead and living bodies chained together

The beauty of me is that I'm very rich.

Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends