Alec Berg Quotes

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

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

Americans overall may live better than medieval aristocrats could dream of, but that means nothing when oligarchs live in the neighborhood next door, flaunting their luxurious homes and top-quality private schools.

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.'

We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare.

Let's take Taylor Swift. She lives in a huge beautiful apartment; she gets limo-ed everywhere. She's not seeing what it means to live in New York.

I did not have a car in high school and neither did Angelina. Try to imagine. You go to Beverly Hills High, one of the wealthiest high schools in the nation. Even the cheapest car that anyone has is brand new. All my friends are well off. I have a movie-star father and no car. It was debilitating.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

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

Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you're so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you.

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

I had hoped that foreboding economic circumstances would have caused the ultra-rich to think not just of themselves and increasing their own personal affluence. Unfortunately, however, too many of them lack concern, and without this concern, the divisive imbalance will only worsen with recession.

Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.

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

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up.

The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth.

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.