Vladimir Potanin Quotes

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

The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.

People tend to assume that I come from a long line of castle-dwelling gentry and am made of money.

… an army of Gatsbys wanting not to overturn the social order but only to belong to the upper crust.

The Social Register is a nice address book for some people, but that's about it.

I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

The rich and the well-born, according to the Federalist Papers, was greatly feared by the founders.

I certainly never saw myself as posh.

In Singapore, there may be 50 old-money families, but you wouldn't know them to look at them.

'Downton Abbey' about upper-class posh people: of course it is.

I'm just a regular upper-middle-class guy who happens to be a billionaire.

It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people.

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

I don't think I met anyone posh until I went to London.

You're a socialite because you're born into it. That's not what I want.

I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.

Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.

Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.

Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate about it.

Lord Salisbury constitutes himself the spokesman of a class, of the class to which he himself belongs, who'toil not neither do they spin'.

The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.