That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy.
It is wrong that corporations and the super wealthy play by a different set of rules.
You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.
The property boom has made us all feel wealthy, but unfortunately it has lulled many of those nearing retirement into a false sense of security.
I'm a little lavish I must admit. But I'm not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is.
There is now a fairly crowded field out there of people who are incredibly wealthy that are giving money to advance their own political agendas.
The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid.
My predecessor taxed wealthy, successful people at a higher rate than ever before. And what happened? They left. And what came of it? Did unemployment drop? No.
You are not truly wealthy unless you earn money while you are sleeping
The laws are stacked for the wealthy.
I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.
Public sentiment is not observed. The wealthy and powerful gain a ready hearing, but the plodding, suffering, unorganized complaining multitude are spurned and derided.
Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better.
The trouble for most people is they don't decide to get wealthy, they just dream about it.
We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.
Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.
Cutting taxes even more on the wealthy and corporations, that's not going to help anybody except the wealthy and corporations.
Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread
He's a wealthy man, a very wealthy man. If you have a half a million-dollar purchase from Tiffany's, you're not a middle-class American.
I think I'm getting wealthy in ways that don't count at the bank.