Katherine Ryan Quotes

For rich children, it'd be very easy and convenient never to take any steps to build an identity outside of your association with your family's wealth.

Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.

When you're 23, 24 years old and somebody's given you a credit card and jets and limos and you don't have to pay the bill when it comes in - that's a pretty nice deal.

Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.

For me, as I suspect for most people, there comes a point where you have enough. If you've got £20 million, why keep going until you've got £100 million or £1,000 million? Does anyone need another vast yacht or private jet or a house full of gold?

Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.

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

When you're young and you have money, you become the CEO, automatically, of life, of your family.

There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans are not very good about sacrificing.

More people smile at me now I'm richer.

I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.

Once I'm satisfied and I've made enough money where I can afford to live in Malibu, because it's very expensive, I will definitely be back there.

One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change.

A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.

I've been cushioned against having to work, with Rocky's continual bounty.

It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.

The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth.

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

Ever wonder why billionaires always need more and more money? It's a power trip.

We're told that to be fly, you gotta have a fly car, the rims on your wheels, the fly jewels, and that to work a regular job and make legal money is uncool.

Who doesn't want to have a yacht? But I would prefer to invest my money in something else. But I love them. I just wouldn't buy one unless I had a lot, a lot of money.

Everybody seems to live rather well down here in Monaco!

Because I was given everything I didn't know the value of money. My dad always bailed me out.

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.