Richard Gere Quotes

New York can get on top of you if you don't have much money, but if you have money, it's kind of a playground.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor.

Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had more resources, more money, happier families.

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

I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money.

Money can't buy poverty.

The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.

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

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

There are lots of people in the world who have money. Lots of people in Morecambe have money, let alone the world. And Morecambe is quite a small place.

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

If you are poor today, you will always be poor. Only the rich now acquire riches.

In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.

There aren't any poor cable hosts.

Money dictates nearly step of social mobility from the very first moments of life. How much our parents make often determines whether we go to college. It affects the jobs we get offered and the ones we can afford to take.

The family of my mother had a lot of money; the family of my father, nothing.

In the United States, it is all about money: those who have it and those who don't.

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.

Yes, there is a burden of financial insecurity. I don't think you find it in mood. Income is correlated with life satisfaction, so maybe you do find it in life satisfaction. You don't find it in mood, and I think it is very important.

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.