Drake Quotes

I believe in status symbols.

I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.

I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.

If a player has jewelry or a cool car, people in Germany are instantly jealous.

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

When you're young, luxury often means being able to buy something you really want - a high end bag or a specific car.

The first splurge that I did, I bought, like, an $80,000 watch, but that's because I'm a rapper. I need jewelry.

I mean I have expensive clothing, I just don't wear it.

I have a Mercedes. I wear a Rolex watch. I have no problem with the selling of things.

The more cars, the better show.

I cycle whenever possible around London. But I travel first class when I need to fly.

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. In an industrial community this propensity for emulation expresses itself in pecuniary emulation; and this, so far as regards the Western civilized communities of the present, is virtually equivalent to saying that it expresses itself in some form of conspicuous waste.

Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn't, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.

When we started off, we wanted the girls, the cocaine, the fur coats. It wasn't like it was an act; it was almost like working-class people winning the pools. We went bananas.

Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.

My watch say I made it, my chains say I'm rich. Diamonds in my mouth got me talking cash s**t.

When you see the Escalades and the Hummers driving down the street, at least in Los Angeles, this dry, flat desert with shopping malls, when you see someone driving one of those through this you're like, 'You are definitely part of the problem.'

Rich people buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle class tend to buy luxuries first.

Egoism... is not eliminated by economic reorganization or by material abundance. When basic needs are satisfied, new 'needs' emerge. In our society, people want no simply clothes, but fashionable clothes; not shelter, but a house to display their wealth and taste.

America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart.

I don't know why the players make such a big fuss about sitting in the first class section of the plane. Does that mean they'll get there faster?

Slasher Hathaway marks his territory by spending money. He might as well have pissed on her. It means nothing.

Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to have absolutely no values and an unlimited amount of money.

And just as I was climbing into that first-class seat, and wrapping myself in a blanket, just as I was adjusting my pillow behind my head, and having a sip of that champagne, and just as I was bringing down and adjusting my Thai purple sleep mask, I had an inkling. I had a flash. I suddenly thought I knew what it was that had killed Marilyn Monroe.

First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries.