Pat Conroy Quotes

Before I really even understood what the term meant, I wanted to be wealthy. I wanted to be able to drive the beautiful old Rolls-Royces my father admired when I was a child.

Knowing that my ancestry had all been quite wealthy and owned their own businesses probably left me with the ambition to replicate what they'd done.

My family and I have been blessed with good fortune in the world of business. We've created quite a net worth. My children, two boys, have more money than they will ever need, and they aren't empire builders.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.

No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions.

No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.

I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.

I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.

I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world.

I came from a family of extremely old money, and so by the time I was born, there was really just a trickle of money left.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

The only old man I am interested in is one who is worth at least £300million and is 103. Obviously you don't want them to hang around too long, you want to be able to spend his money.

I got a lot of money, but when you wealthy, that mean that your children is ballin', your grandchildren is ballin'.

My great-great-grandfather, who made his money in the jute trade, had at one time 600 houses in London, and within three generations, the money was gone.

There's nothing - I've bought everything I want. I don't like yachts or anything; you know, I'm not a yacht person, and I've got pretty much the nicest plane I'd want to have.

Some people start modeling because they want to be models and they want the parties and the recognition, and then there are people like me. I come from a simple family, and for me getting into modeling was a chance to make money and create a business.

Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.

I have a slightly bourgeois upbringing, I guess. My parents paid for me to go to school, which is nice, but I haven't gotten a dime since then. I have no trust fund. I wish I did.

I don't dream to be like mega crazy rich.

I want to see wealth cascading down the generations.

He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him.

Rich Americans are more likely to have made their own fortunes than to have inherited them.

Wealth has never been a sufficient source of honour in itself. It must be advertised, and the normal medium is obtrusively expensive.

If you were a Rockefeller, wouldn’t you be?.