Kevin Kwan Quotes

Rich people are so eccentric, and I don't think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living like rappers, and there was no income tax. They are some of the most fascinating people, and I am endlessly fascinated.

The superrich have grown worldwide. But America is at the head of the pack.

TED is certainly a gathering of an incredibly eclectic, incredibly interesting community, but it's also an elite community - at least an important portion comes from that global 1%.

The richest Indonesians have maybe $5 billion. Bill Gates has $50 billion.

Rich folks always talk hard times.

People have always been fascinated by the foibles of the wealthy and privileged.

The rich - they just live in another realm, really.

The China Rich seem to be spending on a scale that's just beyond anything we've ever seen before. They are building and buying an insane amount of luxury residences around the world, commissioning huge flying palaces from Boeing, and paying ridiculous amounts for art.

Rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich.

The millionaires' Union

More and more, the superrich don't live in one place but many, flitting between multiple homes on different continents, flying to them on private jets, perhaps, concealing many of their real estate purchases through webs of shell companies and trusts.

If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.

Rich people only like being around rich people.

I don't consider myself a fat cat. Don't make me out to be a fat cat.

Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.

I see guys who can't make 10 percent of what I make, and yet they have four Bentleys, three houses, and four bodyguards.

It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.

The rich live the same all over the world.

I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.

The history of the Republican Party is marked by vacillation between its founding principle of opportunity and its domination by the wealthy elite.

Donald Trump embraces his wealth. Hillary Clinton wants us to forget that she made $21.5 million on 92 speeches.

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.

The annual 'Forbes' Billionaires List speaks volumes about the movement and concentration of wealth across industries and geographies.

Drew is a shopaholic. He must have 400 suits and 180 pairs of shoes. I have three pairs of jeans, and that's it. I shop in his closet and take anything I want.

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.