David Letterman Quotes

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.

I'm a little lavish I must admit. But I'm not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is.

I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.

People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.

I photograph wealth.

I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.

I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.

I always have the best of everything.

My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.

Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars' kids at my school - but no conspicuous wealth. It wasn't cool to show off that you had money.

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

Frugality is for the vulgar.

I haven't turned into some rich monster. I've kept my perspective. But I am a bit spoiled. It's hard not to be a little spoiled by having a lot of money.

Money doesn't buy class.

I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.

We judge of entire nations by the productions of a few mechanical arts, and think we are talking of men, while we are boasting of their estates, their dress, and their palaces. The sense in which we apply the terms, great, and noble, high rank, and high life, show, that we have, on such occasions, transferred the idea of perfection from the character to the equipage; and that excellence itself is, in our esteem, a mere pageant, adorned at a great expense, by the labors of many workmen.

Shoot eagles on the Jack Nicklaus course, Porsche with the triple exhaust, Seats soft like a midget's cough.

My watch say I made it, my chains say I'm rich. Diamonds in my mouth got me talking cash s**t.

These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.

Floyd Paterson and other fighters, they just don't take part.They make a million dollars, they get a Rolls Royce and a nice home and a white wife and think, 'well, I made it'.

... the monotonous beauty of wealth.

[P]ride is something only folk with money can afford.

In Hollywood, we have some of the richest unemployed people in the world. They have sun tans. Some of them have chauffeurs in Rolls-Royces waiting outside. They have their golf clubs ready in the car. There is no law that says you cannot play golf while being unemployed.

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.

The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.