Ogden Nash Quotes

I didn't grow up rich. I like it here on TV. With finery.

I don't want to sit by the edge, like some other guys who have played their game. Earned money, have nice lifestyles, and don't say anything.

I've had an enormously privileged working life.

It's easy for the thought-leader and executive classes to embrace a 'do what you love and love what you do' philosophy when they are wealthy enough to work hard only voluntarily, and when their jobs grant them status.

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

People who actually have money don't want to talk about it. They want to talk about everything else.

I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?

I don't need to work.

Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration.

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

Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

Those who do not need to provide or have not built the vehicles of their own sustenance can afford to be less hardworking and driven than those who carry the burden of necessity.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

You know what we say in the Hamptons: If you have to come out on a Friday afternoon or go back on a Sunday night, you're not rich enough to have a house there. So, you have to be able to come and go when you feel like it in the Hamptons.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

Everyone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich.

I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a multimilionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am.

I have a nice house, nice cars, nice watches, nice things. I've got money in the bank. I'm not in need of a few quid - as it stands. It's all irrelevant to me.

I've had the luxury of not having to work because of my husband.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

The good thing about getting wealthy is we don't need to understand a lot of things!

You'd be amazed how much attention $1 million will get you.

When I was growing up, we were in a high income bracket, one of the highest. I was one of the first in high school to get a car. And I didn't have to wait for it to be a graduation present, either. We've probably got one of the nicest houses in Sacramento.