Anthony Trollope Quotes

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.

In the affluent society no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessaries.

Got a house on the hill, cost a couple of mill, Juicy J got bank like Uncle Phil.

Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.

People say I'm a gold digger, but do you see me wearing gold? No. I'm wearing diamonds.

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world, showing new things and gadgets, and himself having plenty of money with which to buy them.

Majestic mighty Wealth is the holiest of our gods.

Make money. Make more money. Make others produce so as to make money... However you get them in or why, just do it.

Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life? . . . Whether we can afford it or no, we must have superfluities.

America's critics can be heard everywhere. It is too much in love with money - worshipping the god of the marketplace, the golden calf. It has too much money, seven of the top 10 banks, eight of the top 10 companies etc. It is too stingy, giving away less of its wealth than other countries. It is vulgar, a rich barbarian.

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.

The American Dream is really money.

I have like fifteen televisions in my house.

When you've got the money, you spend it. When you've spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.

I photograph wealth.

You're never rich enough if you can be richer.

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives.

I try to wear $1 million a day. At least.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.