Michael Bastian Quotes

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.

I'm glad I was never an heiress.

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

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

Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

I always write back to people who are kind enough to write to me. Actually, I don't write - I recline on my red velvet sofa with my feet on the coffee table and dictate the letters to my eldest son.

Money doesn't buy class.

Because you are a great noble, you think you are a great genius! Nobility, a fortune, a rank, appointment to office: all this makes a man so proud! What did you do to earn all this? You took the trouble to get born—nothing more.

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.

You can’t be rich, strong, and loved, particularly by those who are not rich or strong.

Dignity and plenty instead of humility and poverty.

His position makes him one of the richest men in the world coming from one of the poorest countries of the world.

In the affluent society no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessaries.

Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security, and prestige, it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.

For most of history, almost everyone was poor. Power and wealth belonged to only a few.

The good thing about getting wealthy is we don't need to understand a lot of things!

Privilege is provisional. It can be denied, withheld, offered grudgingly, and summarily withdrawn.

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.

A private jet is not a luxury; it is a necessity.

The day I stopped drinking milk' is a very sensitive story telling the tale of how we forget what is 'normal' for us falls under the category of 'expensive' or 'unaffordable' for middle or poor class.

The people who are the most powerful and have the most money sometimes don't value other people.

I like nice things. I've always had nice things.