Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off.

I don't have as much money as Rahm Emanuel.

And living in Australia I am relatively well off.

Sometimes I make more money in a weekend than my grandpa made in a year.

Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

Richness, the ideas of having plenty of money, is not ... an absolute state. Richness is about the amount of money you have compared to the people you see around you. It is about where you are in relation to others, and where they are in relation to you ... and whether you can have the things you want and other people have.

The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He frivols through the livelong day, He knows not Poverty, her pinch. His lot seems light, his heart seems gay; He has a cinch. Yet though my lamp burns low and dim, Though I must slave for livelihood- Think you that I would change with him? You bet I would!

In our minds, rich is always the other person, the other family. Rich is having more than you currently have. If that is the case, you can be rich and not feel it. You can be rich and not know it.

The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry.

Like it or not, to reach middle age with less money or less prestige than our father had is somewhat to lose face. Stupid of course, when put like that, but who is prepared to argue that we are not stupid in several important ways?

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.

I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac and you can't get that.

So I don't feel particularly wealthy-but, you know, I pay my taxes and I know that I am.

Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.

Today the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison with the 20's, but the high cost of today's living and taxes takes a huge bite out of these salaries.

The difference between Oprah Winfrey and me is about $200 million.

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

I suppose with houses and assets, then I guess I would be a millionaire. But so are a lot of people.

How can a guy talk about $20 or $30 million if he's never even made $8 or $9 million?

My first job paid well for a young attorney. I was making over $50,000, which was more than either of my parents had ever made. I thought I was rich.

I was the kind of poor where I knew right away I had less than everyone around me. Our environment, our physical space reflected our income.

It is unclear how much money Trump has, but it is not enough to matter in Russia. If he keeps up his pose as the tough billionaire, he will be flattered by the Russian media, scorned by those who matter in Russia, and then easily crushed by men far richer and smarter than he.

A poor person in my community doesn't see a person driving a Tesla and say, 'That benefits me.'

I think there are many people on £70,000 who may well feel that their circumstances are such that they are not rich.