Jaclyn Smith Quotes

Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.

I don't think that the rich should be attacked. There's nothing wrong in being rich.

I look at the money I'm about to spend on myself and ask if IKEA's customers could afford it.

The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about 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.

Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.

Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

I've lived in New York when I've had nothing, and I've lived in New York when I had money, and New York changes radically depending on how much money you have. It's the texture of life.

There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

If you're a big celebrity, you get money to be private. I'm just a working stiff. I don't get bodyguards or alarm systems.

If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.

I am available to all women - all women who can afford me, that is.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

I was born with no money. So when people talk about Bow Wow being rich his whole life, I don't know where they get that.

It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.

Why did the world ever become so unequal?

He that despises his neighbor's happiness because he wears a worsted cap or a leather apron, he that struts immeasurably above the lower size of the people, and pretends to adjust the rights of the men by the distinctions of fortune

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.

The poor are fighting this war and the middle class and rich are getting deferments. We must end the graduate school draft exemption.

There’s just too much money in the hands of too few.

The man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa or rolls in his carriage, cannot judge the wants or feelings of the day-laborer.