Wealthy People Quotes

“Rich kids—they can never admit they’re rich.”
― R. Kikuo Johnson, Night Fisher

“The rich are obscure to us, finding ways to be unhappy when all the normal causes of unhappiness are removed.”
― Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

“It takes wealth to buy your desires but it takes wealth management to keep up the abundance.”
― Sujit Lalwani

“The bus is late. Cars drive by. Rich people n cars never look at people on the street, at all. Poor ones always do ... in fact it sometimes seems they're just driving around, looking at people on the street. I've done that. Poor people wait a lot. Welfare, unemployment lines, laundromats, phone booths, emergency rooms, jails, etc.”
― Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

“Money is only one form of wealth.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“They were elegant. Bored yet all seemed to carry perfect self-assurance. They all seemed to be in no rush. They were comfortable in this environment. No tense muscles, no tense movements. No twitching and no slouched shoulders.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“Her mind kept drifting to the time she read The Great Gatsby. She didn't understand the social elite then and she doesn't understand them now. They are unpredictable with no moral compass. Money is everything to them yet even Gatsby with all his wealth couldn't win over his prize possession, Daisy. No matter what he had or did, he never fit in the North Shore circle. She couldn't pinpoint what made them tick.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“Mama, is that Aunt Eula’s chicken recipe?” Emily tore into a drumstick with enough fervor for both of them.
“Sure is.”
Her aunts had been up since before dawn cooking. The sweets table was piled with pies and sponge cake with fresh berries and Aunt Marline’s divinity fudge. She picked at her chicken, feeling her appetite improving with each bite of familiar cooking.
“Can I have seconds, Mama?”
“Of course. let me get some for you.” Alaine took Em’s plate to the buffet, still loaded with more food than an army could do away with. She chose a drumstick from the plate of chicken, then froze.
“Now, Stella, it’s quaint,” Mrs. Mark Grafton, Pierce’s mother. Alaine stiffened. “They’ve done the best they can— and I think they rather expected us to enjoy a country luncheon.”
“But chicken fricassee? For a wedding luncheon? Are they going to have us dance a reel next?” A woman younger than Mrs. Grafton, but bearing the same sharp dark eyes, tittered quietly.
“I told Pierce they should have a fish course, at least. And a consommé. Of course I knew an aspic would be asking far too much.”
“Pierce always did have an independent streak.” Stella said this as though it were a blight. “Marrying some country nobody when the Harris girls or Georgia Lawson would have—”
“Not polite to speak of it now, dear,” Mrs. Grafton said with a tone that told Alaine it was only propriety keeping her from joining. Alaine seethed. Delphine wasn’t a nobody— she was better than any of these Perrysburg ninnies.
“Pierce has his career to consider, that’s all I’m saying. She can’t go blundering about, mucking that up. After all, we stand to catch the ill effects of any mistakes she makes.”
“I’ve advised Pierce how to handle himself, and he’ll make sure she knows her place. You needn’t concern yourself with your brother’s affairs.” Mrs. Grafton swept away in a wake of heady perfume, but not before Alaine heard her add in a sharp whisper, “He didn’t listen to me about marrying the girl, why do you think he’d listen about a fish course?”
Neither Grafton woman had noticed Alaine; they were, Alaine presumed, well practiced in ignoring anything that didn’t benefit them specifically. Country nobody, indeed— Del would show them all up before Christmas. If the best chicken in the county wasn’t good enough for the Graftons, she would enjoy it double.
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― Rowenna Miller, The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill

“For those who have all the money, people are like pennies.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“A rich man is poor when he acts like a poor man.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Philanthropy" means "love of mankind." Collective love is at the core of justice. The wealthiest among us, those who have the broadest horizons to put forces in motion, should embrace that work as their own highest calling.”
― Ralph Nader, The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future – Ralph Nader on Progressive Political and Economic Reform

“What kind of billionaire ever did anything for the public good?”
― Emma Sloley, The Island of Last Things