Rashid Johnson Quotes

'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.

I realize I am very privileged. But there's a difference between being spoiled and privileged.

Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.

When you grow up around the 1 percent, it shows you a lot as a child. I got lost in my friend's house my first time ever going to it, because it was so big. I'd never seen anything like that before in my life.

We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

The defeats and victories for the people at the top aren't defeats and victories for the people at the bottom.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

Because of how I grew up and on 'Made In Chelsea,' I never had any challenge.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everyone born into privilege should wear sack cloth and ashes. But it's something I wrestle with. I know a lot of people who live below the poverty level and have for a long time and it makes them uneasy to think they'll have to interact with people from different economic levels. Everyone has some sort of load put on them, whatever the circumstances they're born into.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Rewards are directly proportional to the suspect and his peers' status in society: $100,000 was offered in the Moxley case. It meant nothing to millionaires.

I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dating a few people who were from old money and a few from new money in my 20s, I just sort of became obsessed with this idea of clueless rich people.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

I wasn't born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.

You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.

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

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.