Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes

I once had money to burn. I'd fly to Barbados for the weekend. I lived in a twenty-two-room mansion and had my pick of four luxury cars.

Rich people are so eccentric, and I don't think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living like rappers, and there was no income tax. They are some of the most fascinating people, and I am endlessly fascinated.

In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

A lot of DJs don't realize they're here today and gone tomorrow. They're literally taking jets to every show. It's crazy how much money they're spending.

I see guys who can't make 10 percent of what I make, and yet they have four Bentleys, three houses, and four bodyguards.

I'm sure the way to be happy is to live well beyond your means!

To be extravagant you need money. True. But you do not need your own money.

I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe and basked on all the world's most famous beaches.

Rich people are so eccentric, and I don't think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living like rappers.

I like reading books where people with a lot of money use it to do whatever they want. Like stay in expensive hotels and do whatever drugs they want and fly wherever they want.

I don't stay up and rent private jets and go on yachts and whoop it up in Miami.

Posh is a way of living that can often be quite miserly and not about money.

I liked Live and Let Die, where money was no object.

Hollywood is just a bunch of people going around in Learjets to other people asking them if they've got any money? Well, they might have if they didn't spend it all on jets.

Musicians burn through more cash than the Federal Reserve.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

No government under heaven could have prevented a people from ruin ... when they were exhausting their valuable resources in paying for superfluities, and running themselves in debt to foreigners, and to each other for articles of folly and dissipation.

… frittered away, 9 times out of 10, in things which pertain to the body and not to the spirit; upon richer food and drink, better clothing, more extravagant living, which are beneficial neither to rich or nor poor.

Dubai has been built very fast. The plan was money. The architect was money. The designer was money … And if you ever wondered what money would look like if it were left to its own devices, it’s Dubai.

Buying sports cars, going to expensive nightclubs, spraying people with champagne and things like that - what I learnt is that it wasn't for me, and, in fact, I feel pretty empty after doing that.

I don't believe I have a playboy life.

I have more than 100 pairs of Jimmy Choos and I feel very guilty about it.

I spent money on all the wrong things. Private airfare. Things like that.

As soon as I got rich, it was mimosas every morning. I was taking my friends to Six Flags every weekend. We were flying to Hawaii; we did whatever we wanted.

I would take one of 15 half-million-dollar cars I owned and go to the mall and spend that much money. Stupid, stupid stuff. It's like it didn't make a difference. They were ego investments. I would have been great with three or four cars. I didn't need a 117-foot boat.