Margaret Atwood Quotes

When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.

It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.

John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don't know if it is true, but one story I read was about one of his sons having to wear his older sister's clothes in order to save money.

I have a feeling that life as a billionaire in Silicon Valley is very different than the life that you or I would lead. Unless you're a billionaire; I don't know your financial situation.

I'm just a regular upper-middle-class guy who happens to be a billionaire.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Celebrities are not necessarily the richest people of all, but on the face of it, they seem to be representative of the very richest people.

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.

I'm from a middle class family, but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people.

I think there are many people on £70,000 who may well feel that their circumstances are such that they are not rich.

Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it.

Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

In democratic countries, however opulent a man is supposed to be, he is almost always discontented with his fortune, because he finds that he is less rich than his father was, and he fears that his sons will be less rich than himself.

I've always been this way. My father taught this to me. Here's the thing, you have to understand; the thing about having money: Money and fame don't change you, all it does is allow you to be more of who you are anyway.

The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry.

Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.

The advantages of wealth are greatly exaggerated.

Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.

The rich live the same all over the world.