Chen Guangbiao Quotes

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.

I didn't have the clothes that a kid with a famous, rich dad would have. I didn't have the house. I didn't have the mannerisms. I didn't have the sense of entitlement. And I don't mean that in a bad way: I just - we didn't have the stuff.

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.

Our parents’ incomes play a larger role in our personal economic fortunes than is true for other peer countries.

I was an anomaly because my father was a Harvard man, and he came from a family of poor people.

It wasn't as if I was simply some guy who had never seen the other side of the tracks.

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

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.

I felt like any other American kid. I already worked at a steady job as an ice cream scooper, but I didn't feel less in any way than my more affluent friends from school.

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

I love Romney. It is not his fault that he is the son of a successful governor and makes $20 million a year.

I don't come from a privileged background.

Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

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

Money can't buy poverty.

I would say I came from upper middle class family.

I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.

There's often an assumption you're more privileged if you belong to a family with people who have made a success.

I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.

You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

As someone who came to New York in the 1970s, I was, like so many of my friends, a certified member of what we now call the 99 percent - and I was a lot closer to the bottom than to the top of that 99 percent. At some point during the intervening years, I moved into the 1 percent.

I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off.

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

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.