Zhang Xin Quotes

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'

The beauty of not growing up middle class is that you don't think like the middle class. You don't have anything to protect, you know what I mean?

I feel like money is an interesting thing when you don't come from it.

Am I allowed to call myself working-class now? Because obviously I'm now very rich.

The interesting thing about me is that I was born poor, and I've lived rich and I've lived poor, and I know how to do both. People think rich is better. I don't know.

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.

I still consider myself working class. I know my circumstances have changed dramatically since I was growing up back in Birkenhead.

I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

Like Venice’s oligarchs, America’s super-rich are destroying the social mobility that creates wealth.

Just because I'm a lot wealthier now doesn't mean I want my kids to grow up differently to how I did.

That's mind-blowing to me that people would say that because you have nice things, you're soft. No, you're soft because your culture is soft.

When people listen to Jay-Z, they're working all day or trying to work and pay their bills, and what they hear is someone who's free. Who doesn't have to worry about the electricity. But all we're taught is that those who are rich deserve to be rich because they worked harder than the rest of us, or they're smarter.

As someone who has dealt with economic hardship, I am committed to making the changes necessary for our country to become more equitable. And to do so, I believe we need to think big.

I grew up in a lot of different places. I always saw the bigger picture. I was around rich kids with country houses and private jets. No disrespect to those people, but I never thought they were super geniuses. I couldn't see how I wasn't going to have those things, too.

The American middle class has always existed to reconcile the apparently irreconcilable: settled values with unsettled ones, social mobility with a sense of permanence.

For all the chatter that Britain has moved beyond class, recent studies have found that it determines the life chances of British people more today than at any point since the Second World War... A child born into a rich family in Britain will almost certainly live and die rich, while a child born into a poor family will almost certainly live and die poor.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.